A quick tools strategy for program analysis and software maintenance

Author

Johnson, Bret ; Ornburn, Steve ; Rugaber, Spencer

Author_Institution

Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

1992

fDate

9-12 Nov 1992

Firstpage

206

Lastpage

213

Abstract

A strategy for quickly producing special-purpose tools is described. The strategy combines existing tools including simple off-the-shelf text processing tools; rule-based, language-specific analysis tool; and a commercial CASE (computer-aided software engineering) tool. The strategy has been successfully used in the context of the maintenance and reverse engineering of a large, real-time software system used for telephony. The approach is illustrated by examples that include the generation of cross reference information, calling trees, run-time stack analysis, and code restructuring

Keywords

knowledge based systems; software maintenance; software tools; telecommunications computing; telephony; word processing; calling trees; code restructuring; commercial CASE; computer-aided software engineering; cross reference information; language-specific analysis tool; real-time software system; reverse engineering; rule-based; run-time stack analysis; simple off-the-shelf text processing tools; software maintenance; special-purpose tools; telephony; Application software; Computer aided software engineering; Educational institutions; Embedded software; Information analysis; Real time systems; Reverse engineering; Software maintenance; Telephony; Text processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance, 1992. Proceerdings., Conference on

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2980-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSM.1992.242541

Filename

242541