DocumentCode
3364544
Title
Transparent reverse engineering tool integration using a conceptual transaction adapter
Author
Jin, Dean ; Cordy, James R. ; Dean, Thomas R.
Author_Institution
Queen´´s Univ., Kingston, Ont., Canada
fYear
2003
fDate
26-28 March 2003
Firstpage
399
Lastpage
408
Abstract
We present a proposal for a novel approach to facilitating transparent interoperability among reverse engineering tools. We characterize the architectural and operational characteristics of reverse engineering tools and demonstrate that many similarities exist among them. Taking full advantage of these similarities, we outline an approach for creating a domain ontology of operational and representational concepts for a given set of tools. A special adapter is proposed that makes use of this ontology, to facilitate transparent interoperability among them.
Keywords
open systems; reverse engineering; software architecture; software tools; conceptual transaction adapter; domain ontology; operational characteristics; transparent interoperability; transparent reverse engineering tool integration; Application software; Object oriented modeling; Ontologies; Programming; Proposals; Protocols; Reverse engineering; Software maintenance; Software systems; Software tools;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Software Maintenance and Reengineering, 2003. Proceedings. Seventh European Conference on
ISSN
1534-5351
Print_ISBN
0-7695-1902-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CSMR.2003.1192449
Filename
1192449
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