MARBLE. A business process archeology tool

Modernization of legacy information systems is usually triggered by the need of introducing new business requirements or due to the technology obsolescence. During modernization software projects, there exists a lot of business knowledge that was embedded in source code owing to progressive maintenance, which is not present anywhere else. In order to preserve embedded business knowledge this paper presents MARBLE, a tool to recover business processes from legacy information systems. MARBLE provides an extensible framework, thus it is developed as an Eclipse™ plugin to ensure its future extension. So far, MARBLE supports Java-based system and focuses mainly on legacy source code. To facilitate its adoption in the industry, MARBLE has been applied in some real-life modernization projects, which demonstrated that MARBLE is suitable to retrieve business processes and facilitated its continuous improvement to reach an appropriate maturity level.