Title :
IEE Colloquium on `Reverse Engineering for Software Based Systems´ (Digest No.1994/211)
Abstract :
The following topics were dealt with: reasons for reverse engineering software; re-engineering legacy systems into new environments; PCL language for modelling system architecture; using data abstraction to guide the restructuring of FORTRAN; specifications from source code; the use of static analysis tools to support reverse engineering; reverse engineering for software maintenance; a foundation for tools to maintain and re-engineer COBOL systems; reverse engineering COBOL through the use of automatically applied program transformations; and the future of reverse engineering
Keywords :
reverse engineering; systems re-engineering; COBOL; FORTRAN; PCL; automatically applied program transformations; data abstraction; future; legacy systems; restructuring; reverse engineering; software based systems; software maintenance; source code; specifications; static analysis tools; system architecture; systems re-engineering;
Conference_Titel :
Reverse Engineering for Software Based Systems, IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location :
London
