Extracting Business Rules from Source Code

This paper reviews the state of the art on application knowledge acquisiton from existing software systems and defines the role of business rules. It then goes on to present a method for identifying and extracting business rules by means of data output identification and program stripping. This method has been implemented in a reverse engineering tool SOFT-REDOC for COBOL programs. The results are intended to aide the business analyst in comprehending legacy programs.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1996
• Where: IWPC
• Authors: Harry M. Sneed, Katalin Erdös
• Keywords: Application Knowledge Acquisiton, Business Rules, Data Output Identification, IWPC 1996, Software Engineering