Title :
LIFT Revisited: Enhancing the Understanding of NATURAL/ADABAS Legacy Systems
Author :
Brito, Kellyton Dos Santos ; Garcia, Vinicius Cardoso ; De Lemos Meira, Silvio Romero
Author_Institution :
Exact Sci. Dept., Feira de Santana State Univ., Feira de Santana, Brazil
Abstract :
LIFT (Legacy Information retrieval Tool) is a tool for reverse engineering and understanding of legacy systems, in particular NATURAL/ADABAS systems. Its provides several capabilities, such as call graphs, identification and visual representation of application tiers, the presentation of flows from screen to database entities, cluster analysis and documentation generation, among others. In this paper, we present two new functionalities of LIFT tool: the reconstruction and visualization of screen layouts, and the graphical visualization and automatic migration of ADABAS database structure.
Keywords :
data visualisation; database management systems; information retrieval; reverse engineering; software maintenance; software tools; ADABAS database structure; LIFT tool; NATURAL-ADABAS legacy systems; call graphs; cluster analysis; database entities; documentation generation; graphical visualization; legacy information retrieval tool; reverse engineering; software maintenance; visual representation; Business; Computer architecture; Data visualization; Reverse engineering; Software; Visual databases; Legacy systems; reverse engineering; system understanding;
Conference_Titel :
Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), 2010 14th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Madrid
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-369-8
Electronic_ISBN :
1534-5351
DOI :
10.1109/CSMR.2010.41
