Extracting object-oriented specification from procedurally oriented programs

Author

Sneed, Harry M. ; Nyary, E.

Author_Institution

SES Software Eng. Service GmbH, Munich, Germany

fYear

1995

fDate

14-16 Jul 1995

Firstpage

217

Lastpage

226

Abstract

There is an increasing demand to migrate legacy programs from the mainframe to networked workstation computers. An important prerequisite to such migrations is an adequate and up-to-date documentation of the programs. Since the programs often have to be redesigned, the documentation must reflect the current program design in such a manner that this may be used as a blueprint for reimplementation. If the programs are to be redesigned as object-oriented programs, then the documentation should also be object-oriented. The paper presents an approach to automatically extracting object-oriented design documentation from existing COBOL mainframe programs

Keywords

COBOL; formal specification; object-oriented programming; reverse engineering; system documentation; systems re-engineering; COBOL mainframe programs; documentation; legacy programs; mainframe; networked workstation computers; object-oriented programs; object-oriented specification; procedurally oriented programs; program design; program redesign; Algorithm design and analysis; Costs; Data processing; Distributed processing; Documentation; Process design; Reverse engineering; Software engineering; Tellurium; Transaction databases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reverse Engineering, 1995., Proceedings of 2nd Working Conference on

Conference_Location

Toronto, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-8186-711-43

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCRE.1995.514710

Filename

514710