Rule-based detection for reverse engineering user interfaces

Author

Moore, Melody M.

Author_Institution

Coll. of Comput., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

196

fDate

8-10 Nov 196

Firstpage

42

Lastpage

48

Abstract

Reengineering the user interface can be a critical part of the migration of any large information system. The paper details experiences with manually reverse engineering legacy applications to build a model of the user interface functionality, and to develop a technique for partially automating this process. The results show that a language-independent set of rules can be used to detect user interface components from legacy code, and also illustrate problems that require dynamic analysis to solve them

Keywords

information systems; reverse engineering; software engineering; systems analysis; systems re-engineering; user interfaces; dynamic analysis; language-independent rules; large information system migration; legacy applications; legacy code; manual reverse engineering; partial automation; rule-based detection; user interface component detection; user interface functionality model; user interface reengineering; user interface reverse engineering; Automation; Business process re-engineering; Computer interfaces; Educational institutions; Graphical user interfaces; Information systems; Open systems; Reverse engineering; User interfaces; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reverse Engineering, 1996., Proceedings of the Third Working Conference on

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7674-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCRE.1996.558844

Filename

558844