Reuse reengineering and validation via concept assignment

Author

Cimitile, A. ; Fasolino, A.R. ; Maresca, P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Sistemistica, Univ. of Naples, Italy

fYear

1993

fDate

27-30 Sep 1993

Firstpage

216

Lastpage

225

Abstract

The first step in a software reuse reengineering process is to analyze the structural characteristics of the existing software so as to produce software component sets, each of which is a candidate for clustering and reengineering into a reusable module. This step is founded on one or more candidature criteria and the cost of the following steps depends on their quality. The notions of completeness and adequacy as applied to candidature criteria are introduced, the need for an adequacy validation process before they are applied on a software system is outlined. An adequate validation process founded on the assignment of a concept to the candidate modules is proposed, and the results of an application of this process are described and discussed

Keywords

program verification; software quality; software reusability; systems re-engineering; candidature criteria; concept assignment; quality; reusable module; software component sets; software reuse reengineering process; software validation; Application software; Context modeling; Costs; Humans; Knowledge engineering; Production; Reverse engineering; Software engineering; Software reusability; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance ,1993. CSM-93, Proceedings., Conference on

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

0-8186-4600-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSM.1993.366940

Filename

366940