Reverse Engineering of System Interfaces A Report from the Field

Author

Sneed, Harry M. ; Sneed, Stephan H.

Author_Institution

ANECON GmbH, Vienna

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 2006

Firstpage

125

Lastpage

133

Abstract

This paper is a report on three real industrial projects conducted to redocument the system interfaces of existing application systems - trading system, a health insurance system and a bank credit system. The first reverse engineering project was for the purpose of accessing the backend C server software from Web clients. The second project was for the purpose of testing the interfaces between COBOL subsystems running parallel in two interconnected environments - computer and a Bull mainframe. The third project was to extract procedures from existing PL/I programs for reuse as Web services. The lessons learned from the three projects are assessed to draw conclusions on how to improve the development process

Keywords

client-server systems; reverse engineering; user interfaces; Bull mainframe; C server software; COBOL subsystem; PL/I program; Web client; Web service; application system; bank credit system; health insurance system; reverse engineering; system interface; trading system; Application software; Computer interfaces; Concurrent computing; Data mining; Data structures; Insurance; Relational databases; Reverse engineering; Testing; Web services; COBOL and PL/I; Interface comprehension; Reverse Engineering; WSDL.; XMI; XML; data structures in C/C++;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reverse Engineering, 2006. WCRE '06. 13th Working Conference on

Conference_Location

Benevento

ISSN

1095-1350

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2719-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCRE.2006.50

Filename

4023983