Surprising as it may seem, many of the early adopters of the object-oriented paradigm already face a number of problems typically encountered in large-scale legacy systems. Softwa...
As software systems evolve, they become more complex and harder to understand and maintain. Certain reverse engineering techniques attempt to reconstruct software models from sour...
During the maintenance of legacy systems, the structure and the documentationofthe system usually deteriorates, and hence the maintenance becomesprogressively harder and harder. I...
: The available evidence in a legacy software system, which can help in its understanding and recovery of its architecture are not always sufficient. Very often the system's d...
The process of understanding a source code in a high-level programming language involves complex computation. Given a piece of legacy code and a library of program plan templates, ...