DocumentCode
357643
Title
How to implement the future?
Author
Verhoef, C.
Author_Institution
Programming Res. Group, Amsterdam Univ., Netherlands
Volume
1
fYear
2000
fDate
2000
Firstpage
32
Abstract
This paper sheds light on the realities of implementing spanking new ideas in existing software systems. Information is provided both on the advantages and drawbacks of starting from scratch and basing yourself on an existing software asset to implement your IT future. The paper touches upon the need for tool support to refactor existing software systems so that implementing their IT future is enabled. An idea of how such refactory tools look like is given and pointers to technical research contributions are provided. Those tools aid in overcoming the maintenance debt built up over the years. It is argued that implementing the future in IT amounts to dealing with the past to a large extent
Keywords
software maintenance; software tools; systems re-engineering; maintenance; software systems; tool support; Accidents; Buildings; Information technology; Power generation; Production facilities; Software engineering; Software systems; Switches; Telephony; Water heating;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Euromicro Conference, 2000. Proceedings of the 26th
Conference_Location
Maastricht
ISSN
1089-6503
Print_ISBN
0-7695-0780-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/EURMIC.2000.874614
Filename
874614
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