An architecture for interoperable program understanding tools

Author

Woods, Steven ; O´Brien, Liam ; Lin, Tao ; Gallagher, Keith ; Quilici, Alex

Author_Institution

Software Eng. Inst., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

24-26 Jun 1998

Firstpage

54

Lastpage

63

Abstract

Program understanding tools are currently not interoperable, leading researchers to waste significant resources reinventing already existing tools. Even commercial environments that have been designed to support the construction of program understanding tools have serious flaws in this regard. This paper discusses CORUM (Common Object-based Re-engineering Unified Model), an architecture to support interoperability between program understanding tools, and it provides several examples of CORUM´s use in the construction of new tools for concept recognition and program visualization

Keywords

data visualisation; object-oriented programming; open systems; reverse engineering; software tools; systems re-engineering; CORUM; Common Object-based Re-engineering Unified Model; commercial environments; concept recognition; interoperable program understanding tools; program visualization; Computer architecture; Control systems; Data flow computing; Data mining; Data visualization; Decoding; Educational institutions; Software engineering; Software tools; Wheels;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Program Comprehension, 1998. IWPC '98. Proceedings., 6th International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Ischia

ISSN

1092-8138

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8560-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WPC.1998.693285

Filename

693285