Title :
Managing recovered function and structure of legacy software components
Author :
Chase, Melissa P. ; Christey, Steven M. ; Harris, David R. ; Yeh, Alexander S.
Author_Institution :
MITRE Corp., Bedford, MA, USA
Abstract :
We are employing ManSART, a software architecture recovery system, to reverse engineer large scale legacy software systems. We semi-automatically recover software structure and functionality abstractions working primarily from source code. A major technical contribution for our work is that we interpret and integrate the results of localized, language-specific source code analyses in the context of large size systems written in multiple languages
Keywords :
reverse engineering; software reusability; systems re-engineering; ManSART; language-specific source code; large scale legacy software; legacy software components; reverse engineering; software architecture recovery system; software functionality; software structure; Computer architecture; Connectors; Data mining; Information analysis; Large-scale systems; Performance analysis; Reverse engineering; Software algorithms; Software architecture; Software systems;
Conference_Titel :
Reverse Engineering, 1998. Proceedings. Fifth Working Conference on
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8967-6
DOI :
10.1109/WCRE.1998.723178
