Data exchange with the columbus schema for c++

Author

Ferenc, Rudolf ; Beszédes, Árpád

Author_Institution

Res. Group on Artificial Intelligence, Univ. of Szeged, Hungary

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

59

Lastpage

66

Abstract

To successfully carry out a software maintenance or reengineering task, a suitably assembled set of tools is required, which interoperate seaminglessly. To achieve this goal, an exchange format is needed that can be used to represent the facts extracted from a software system in a standardized way; serving as an output of one tool and as an input for other tools. In this paper we propose a modular schema for C++, called the Columbus schema. The schema has been implemented in the Columbus/CAN front end framework tool and is already utilized in several usages, one of which is its representation in the GXL form

Keywords

C++ language; electronic data interchange; reverse engineering; software maintenance; systems re-engineering; AST; C++ schema; CAN; Columbus schema; GXL; data exchange; front end; reverse engineering; software maintenance; standard exchange format; tool interoperability; Artificial intelligence; Assembly; Documentation; IEC standards; ISO standards; Reverse engineering; Software maintenance; Software standards; Software systems; Unified modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance and Reengineering, 2002. Proceedings. Sixth European Conference on

Conference_Location

Budapest

ISSN

1534-5351

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1438-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSMR.2002.995790

Filename

995790