Querying as an enabling technology in software reengineering

Author

Kullbach, Bernt ; Winter, Andreas

Author_Institution

Inst. for Software Technol., Univ. of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

42

Lastpage

50

Abstract

It is argued that different kinds of reengineering technologies can be based on querying. Several reengineering technologies are presented as being integrated into a technically oriented reengineering taxonomy. The usefulness of querying is pointed out with respect to these reengineering technologies. To impose querying as a base technology in reengineering, examples are given with respect to the EER/GRAL approach to conceptual modeling and implementation. This approach is presented, together with GReQL as its query part. The different reengineering technologies are finally reviewed in the context of the GReQL query facility

Keywords

entity-relationship modelling; query languages; query processing; reverse engineering; software maintenance; systems re-engineering; EER/GRAL approach; GReQL query facility; GUPRO Repository Query Language; Generic Understanding of Programs; conceptual modeling; enabling technology; extended entity relationship models; querying; reengineering technologies; software reengineering; technically oriented reengineering taxonomy; Application software; Electrical capacitance tomography; Q measurement; Software performance; Software systems; Taxonomy; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance and Reengineering, 1999. Proceedings of the Third European Conference on

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0090-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSMR.1999.756681

Filename

756681