Extracting business rules from COBOL: A model-based tool

Author

Cosentino, Valentina ; Cabot, Jordi ; Albert, Patrick ; Bauquel, Philippe ; Perronnet, Jacques

Author_Institution

AtlanMod, INRIA, Nantes, France

fYear

2013

fDate

14-17 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

483

Lastpage

484

Abstract

This paper presents a Business Rule Extraction tool for COBOL systems. Starting from a COBOL program, we derive a model-based representation of the source code and we provide a set of model transformations to identify and visualize the embedded business rules. In particular, the tool facilitates the definition of an application vocabulary and the identification of relevant business variables. In addition, such variables are used as starting point to slice the code in order to identify business rules, that are finally represented by means of textual and graphical artifacts. The tool has been developed as an Eclipse plug-in in collaboration with IBM France.

Keywords

COBOL; business data processing; data visualisation; vocabulary; COBOL program; COBOL systems; Eclipse plug-in; IBM France; application vocabulary; business rules extraction; business variables identification; embedded business rules identification; embedded business rules visualization; graphical artifacts; model transformations; model-based tool; source code model-based representation; textual artifacts; Computational modeling; Context; Organizations; Software; Visualization; Vocabulary;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reverse Engineering (WCRE), 2013 20th Working Conference on

Conference_Location

Koblenz

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCRE.2013.6671329

Filename

6671329