Title :
Conceptual module querying for software reengineering
Author :
Baniassad, Elisa L A ; Murphy, Gail C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC, Canada
Abstract :
Many tools have been built to analyze source code. Most of these tools do not adequately support reengineering activities because they do not allow a software engineer to simultaneously perform queries about both the existing and the desired source structure. This paper introduces the conceptual module approach that overcomes this limitation. A conceptual module is a set of lines of source that are treated as a logical unit. We show how the approach simplifies the gathering of source information for reengineering tasks, and describe how a tool to support the approach was built as a front-end to existing source analysis tools
Keywords :
reverse engineering; software reusability; software tools; systems re-engineering; conceptual module querying; logical unit; reverse engineering; software reengineering; software reuse; software tools; source analysis tools; source code analysis; source information; Computer science; Data analysis; Data engineering; Information analysis; Performance analysis; Reverse engineering; Software performance; Software tools;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering, 1998. Proceedings of the 1998 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8368-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICSE.1998.671103
