Visualizing Year 2000 program changes

Author

Burkwald, Susan K. ; Eick, Stephen G. ; Rivard, Kurt D. ; Pyrce, John D.

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol., USA

fYear

1998

fDate

24-26 Jun 1998

Firstpage

13

Lastpage

18

Abstract

Within the information technology industry the Year 2000 problem involves identifying and repairing legacy programs that will fail at the millennium when the year transitions from 1999 to 2000. To help address this problem, we have developed a visual application that shows Y2K impact in COBOL programs. Using our software visualization approach, programmers assigned to the conversion can see Y2K impact on an entire code portfolio, by application, by subsystem, by program, and even by line of code. The insights gained from our Y2K views lead to more efficient conversion strategies and more effective progress tracking

Keywords

COBOL; data integrity; data visualisation; reverse engineering; software maintenance; visual programming; COBOL; Year 2000; Year 2000 problem; information technology industry; legacy programs; program change visualization; software visualization; visual application; Costs; Data analysis; Databases; Electronic switching systems; History; Information technology; Programming profession; Read only memory; Visualization; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Program Comprehension, 1998. IWPC '98. Proceedings., 6th International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Ischia

ISSN

1092-8138

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8560-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WPC.1998.693275

Filename

693275