Program interface reengineering for wrapping

Author

Sneed, Harry M.

Author_Institution

SES Software-Eng. Service GmbH, Ottobrunn, Germany

fYear

1997

fDate

6-8 Oct 1997

Firstpage

206

Lastpage

214

Abstract

The paper describes a technique for reengineering program interfaces as a prerequisite to wrapping them. Program wrapping is used to encapsulate old software components in a new object-oriented architecture. For this the programs must have well defined interfaces which contain all of their global data. Program interface reengineering as described in the paper is a means to achieving that end. It has been used by the author to prepare an ATM booking system for wrapping. The result was not only reusable objects but also more maintainable programs

Keywords

EFTS; application program interfaces; automatic teller machines; bank data processing; object-oriented programming; software maintenance; software reusability; systems re-engineering; utility programs; ATM booking system; global data; maintainable programs; new object-oriented architecture; old software component encapsulation; program interface reengineering; program wrapping; reusable objects; well defined interfaces; Books; Databases; Ferroelectric films; Information systems; Joining processes; Nonvolatile memory; Random access memory; Stress; User interfaces; Wrapping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reverse Engineering, 1997. Proceedings of the Fourth Working Conference on

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8162-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCRE.1997.624591

Filename

624591