Business Rule Extraction from Legacy Code

Business rules are operational rules that business organizationsfollow to peq%rm various activities. Over time, business rules evolve and the software that implemented them are also changed.As the encompassing software becomes large and aged, the business rules embedded are dincult to extract and understud. Furthermore, the encompassing software is changed without changing the corresponding documents, and thus often the business organization trust the code more than any other documents. It is possible to use a generic tool to extract business rules, however this can be un expensiveexercise. Thispaper proposes a tailored solution approach to the business rule extraction problem, which combines variable classifications, program slicing, and ical abstraction among other maintenance techniques. The proposed approach has been implemented as a system and successfully experimented with a number of industrial programs. The prototype has been demonstrated at several industrial software mainten...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1996
• Where: COMPSAC
• Authors: Hai Huang, Wei-Tek Tsai, Sourav Bhattacharya, Xiaoping Chen, Yamin Wang, Jianhua Sun
• Keywords: Business Organization Trust, Business Rule, Business Rule Extraction, COMPSAC 1996, Software Engineering