Reengineering reports

Author

Sneed, Harry M.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Wirtschaftsinformatik, Regensburg Univ., Vienna, Austria

fYear

2004

fDate

8-12 Nov. 2004

Firstpage

17

Lastpage

26

Abstract

This contribution to the subject of software reengineering is focused on the reengineering of legacy system reports. The object is to extract the contents of existing print files for the purpose of creating new system interface files in XML. These new XML files can then be used both for system testing and system integration. The XML Schema Language XSD and a subset of the XML Transformation Language XSLT are used as a basis for describing and processing the existing reports. The conversion tool Repo2XML was developed within the context of an IBM mainframe to MS-DotNet migration project at the Austrian Chamber of Commerce in Vienna. There, the main use of the converted XML files was to act as a test baseline for the XML reports produced by the new system.

Keywords

XML; reverse engineering; software maintenance; Austrian Chamber of Commerce; IBM mainframe; MS-DotNet migration project; Repo2XML; XML Schema Language; XML Transformation Language; XML files; XML reports; XSD; XSLT; conversion tool; interface files; legacy system reports; reengineering reports; regression testing; report processing; software reengineering; system integration; system testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reverse Engineering, 2004. Proceedings. 11th Working Conference on

ISSN

1095-1350

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2243-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCRE.2004.32

Filename

1374302