A cooperative program understanding environment

Author

Quilici, Alex ; Chin, David N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Hawaii Univ., Honolulu, HI, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

20-23 Sep 1994

Firstpage

125

Lastpage

132

Abstract

The large size and high-percentage of domain-specific code in most legacy systems makes it unlikely that automated understanding tools will be able to completely understand them. Yet automated tools can clearly recognize portions of the design. That suggests exploring environments in which programmer and system work together to understand legacy software. This paper describes such an environment that supports programmer and system cooperating to extract an object-oriented design from legacy software systems. It combines an automated program understanding component that recognizes standard implementations of domain independent plans with with a structured notebook that the programmer uses to link object-oriented design primitives to arbitrary source code fragments. This jointly extracted information is used to support conceptual queries about the program´s code and design

Keywords

knowledge based systems; object-oriented programming; program diagnostics; software maintenance; software tools; automated understanding tools; cooperative program understanding environment; domain independent plans; domain-specific code; legacy systems; object-oriented design; source code fragments; structured notebook; Code standards; Computer architecture; Computer science; Data mining; Libraries; Pattern recognition; Programming profession; Software design; Software prototyping; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Knowledge-Based Software Engineering Conference, 1994. Proceedings., Ninth

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

ISSN

1068-3062

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6380-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/KBSE.1994.342670

Filename

342670