LIFT Revisited: Enhancing the Understanding of NATURAL/ADABAS Legacy Systems

Author

Brito, Kellyton Dos Santos ; Garcia, Vinicius Cardoso ; De Lemos Meira, Silvio Romero

Author_Institution

Exact Sci. Dept., Feira de Santana State Univ., Feira de Santana, Brazil

fYear

2010

fDate

15-18 March 2010

Firstpage

272

Lastpage

273

Abstract

LIFT (Legacy Information retrieval Tool) is a tool for reverse engineering and understanding of legacy systems, in particular NATURAL/ADABAS systems. Its provides several capabilities, such as call graphs, identification and visual representation of application tiers, the presentation of flows from screen to database entities, cluster analysis and documentation generation, among others. In this paper, we present two new functionalities of LIFT tool: the reconstruction and visualization of screen layouts, and the graphical visualization and automatic migration of ADABAS database structure.

Keywords

data visualisation; database management systems; information retrieval; reverse engineering; software maintenance; software tools; ADABAS database structure; LIFT tool; NATURAL-ADABAS legacy systems; call graphs; cluster analysis; database entities; documentation generation; graphical visualization; legacy information retrieval tool; reverse engineering; software maintenance; visual representation; Business; Computer architecture; Data visualization; Reverse engineering; Software; Visual databases; Legacy systems; reverse engineering; system understanding;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), 2010 14th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Madrid

ISSN

1534-5351

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-369-8

Electronic_ISBN

1534-5351

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSMR.2010.41

Filename

5714451