Title :
Querying as an enabling technology in software reengineering
Author :
Kullbach, Bernt ; Winter, Andreas
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Software Technol., Univ. of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Abstract :
It is argued that different kinds of reengineering technologies can be based on querying. Several reengineering technologies are presented as being integrated into a technically oriented reengineering taxonomy. The usefulness of querying is pointed out with respect to these reengineering technologies. To impose querying as a base technology in reengineering, examples are given with respect to the EER/GRAL approach to conceptual modeling and implementation. This approach is presented, together with GReQL as its query part. The different reengineering technologies are finally reviewed in the context of the GReQL query facility
Keywords :
entity-relationship modelling; query languages; query processing; reverse engineering; software maintenance; systems re-engineering; EER/GRAL approach; GReQL query facility; GUPRO Repository Query Language; Generic Understanding of Programs; conceptual modeling; enabling technology; extended entity relationship models; querying; reengineering technologies; software reengineering; technically oriented reengineering taxonomy; Application software; Electrical capacitance tomography; Q measurement; Software performance; Software systems; Taxonomy; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Software Maintenance and Reengineering, 1999. Proceedings of the Third European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Amsterdam
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0090-0
DOI :
10.1109/CSMR.1999.756681
