Title :
Program interface reengineering for wrapping
Author_Institution :
SES Software-Eng. Service GmbH, Ottobrunn, Germany
Abstract :
The paper describes a technique for reengineering program interfaces as a prerequisite to wrapping them. Program wrapping is used to encapsulate old software components in a new object-oriented architecture. For this the programs must have well defined interfaces which contain all of their global data. Program interface reengineering as described in the paper is a means to achieving that end. It has been used by the author to prepare an ATM booking system for wrapping. The result was not only reusable objects but also more maintainable programs
Keywords :
EFTS; application program interfaces; automatic teller machines; bank data processing; object-oriented programming; software maintenance; software reusability; systems re-engineering; utility programs; ATM booking system; global data; maintainable programs; new object-oriented architecture; old software component encapsulation; program interface reengineering; program wrapping; reusable objects; well defined interfaces; Books; Databases; Ferroelectric films; Information systems; Joining processes; Nonvolatile memory; Random access memory; Stress; User interfaces; Wrapping;
Conference_Titel :
Reverse Engineering, 1997. Proceedings of the Fourth Working Conference on
Conference_Location :
Amsterdam
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8162-4
DOI :
10.1109/WCRE.1997.624591
