Tackling the abstraction problem for reverse engineering in a system re-engineering approach.
Conference Proceeding
Yang, H., Liu, X., & Zedan, H. (1998)
Tackling the abstraction problem for reverse engineering in a system re-engineering approach. In the proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'98), 284. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.1998.738520
It is widely accepted that reverse engineering has three components: restructuring, comprehension and production of formal specification. In this paper, we advocate that the t...
Speed and scale up software re-engineering with abstraction patterns and rules.
Conference Proceeding
Liu, X., Yang, H., Zedan, H., & Cau, A. (2000)
Speed and scale up software re-engineering with abstraction patterns and rules. In International Symposium on Principles of Software Evolution, 2000. Proceedings, 90. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPSE.2000.913226
Software reengineering is an essential part of software evolution. Two important issues faced by software reengineering techniques are the time involved and the ability to cop...
Abstraction: a key notation for reverse engineering in a system re-engineering approach.
Journal Article
Yang, H., Liu, X. & Zedan, H. (1999)
Abstraction: a key notation for reverse engineering in a system re-engineering approach. Journal of Software: Evolution and Process. 12, 197-228. doi:10.1002/1096-908X(200007/08)12:43.0.CO;2-X. ISSN 2047-7481
This paper advocates that extracting formal specification semantically consistent to the original legacy system will facilitate further redesign and forward engineering greatl...
On the assessment of re-engineering tools.
Conference Proceeding
Liu, X., Yang, H. & Zedan, H. (1998)
On the assessment of re-engineering tools. In WESS '99 - Workshop on Empirical Studies in Software Maintenance