Title :
A Business-Logic Based Framework for Evolving Software Systems
Author :
Alawairdhi, Mohammed ; Yang, Hongji
Author_Institution :
Software Technol. Res. Lab., De Montfort Univ., Leicester, UK
Abstract :
In the current competitive market to improve their business processes to act in accordance with the rapid changes. This evolution of the business process normally leads to a change in the employed software systems.Software evolution in general is a lengthy and costly task especially when the documentation of a system is lost, out-dated or unavailable. In this paper a business-logic-based framework for evolving software systems is proposed. The goal of the framework is evolving software in a higher abstract layer. The overall approach has been presented and discussed in details. At the end, a case study has been demonstrated to show the effectiveness of the proposed framework using a library management system.
Keywords :
business data processing; software maintenance; business process; business-logic; higher abstract layer; library management system; software evolution; software system; Application software; Business process re-engineering; Computer applications; Documentation; Humans; Information technology; Laboratories; Logic design; Software systems; Software tools; business-logic; extracting; reengineering; software evolution;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Software and Applications Conference, 2009. COMPSAC '09. 33rd Annual IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3726-9
DOI :
10.1109/COMPSAC.2009.147