Strategic reengineering of software: Lifecycle approach

Author

Jarzabek, Stan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Syst. & Comput. Sci., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

fYear

1993

fDate

19-23 Jul 1993

Firstpage

211

Lastpage

220

Abstract

Software systems must be constantly upgraded to be in tune with an evolving business environment. Due to the inefficiency of current maintenance methods, many of the old programs do not meet current strategic needs. Common goals for reengineering software have been to improve maintainability of programs and to convert programs into a newer computer, database, or language. A framework for strategic reengineering in which target systems are substantially redesigned in order to meet a company´s strategic goals is described. Strategic reengineering is much like redevelopment, accelerated by reuse of information that is extracted from existing, still viable, programs. The impact of a company´s strategic plans on software reengineering is discussed, and lifecycle phases of strategic reengineering with CASE are described

Keywords

computer aided software engineering; software maintenance; software portability; systems re-engineering; CASE; Lifecycle approach; evolving business environment; information reuse; maintainability; program conversion; redevelopment; software maintenance; software upgrading; strategic goals; strategic software reengineering; systems redesign; Acceleration; Companies; Computer aided software engineering; Computer science; Data mining; Databases; Information systems; Investments; Software systems; Strategic planning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Aided Software Engineering, 1993. CASE '93., Proceeding of the Sixth International Workshop on

ISSN

1066-1387

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3480-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CASE.1993.634822

Filename

634822