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ICSE
1995
IEEE-ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Reverse Engineering of Legacy Code Exposed
— Reverse engineering of large legacy software systems generally cannot meet its objectives because it cannot be cost-effective. There are two main reasons for this. First, it is...
Bruce W. Weide, Wayne D. Heym, Joseph E. Hollingsw...
ICSE
1995
IEEE-ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A Component- and Message-Based Architectural Style for GUI Software
-- While a large fraction of application code is devoted to graphical user interface (GUI) functions, support for reuse in this domain has largely been confined to the creation of...
Richard N. Taylor, Nenad Medvidovic, Kenneth M. An...
ICSE
1995
IEEE-ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Reverse Engineering of Legacy Systems: A Path Toward Success
This paper addresses the question of whether the reverse engineering of legacy systems is doomed to failure. Our position is that the answer is highly dependent on the specific go...
Alex Quilici
ICSE
1995
IEEE-ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Decentralised Process Enactment in a Multi-Perspective Development Environment
The ViewPoints framework for distributed and concurrent software engineering provides an alternative approach to traditional centralised software development environments. We inve...
Ulf Leonhardt, Jeff Kramer, Bashar Nuseibeh
ICSE
1995
IEEE-ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Deriving Specifications from Requirements: An Example
A requirement is a desired relationship among phenomena of the environment of a system, to be brought about by the hardware/software machine that will be constructed and installed...
Michael Jackson, Pamela Zave
ICSE
1995
IEEE-ACM
14 years 4 months ago
The World and the Machine
As software developers we are engineers because we make useful machines. We are concerned both with the world, in which the machine serves a useful purpose, and with the machine i...
Michael Jackson
ICSE
1995
IEEE-ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Completeness and Consistency Analysis of State-Based Requirements
Mats Per Erik Heimdahl, Nancy G. Leveson
ICSE
1995
IEEE-ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Architectural Mismatch or Why It's Hard to Build Systems Out Of Existing Parts
Many would argue that future breakthroughs in software productivity will dependon our ability to combine existing pieces of software to produce new applications. An important step...
David Garlan, Robert Allen, John Ockerbloom
ICSE
1995
IEEE-ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A Compact Petri Net Representation for Concurrent Programs
This paper presents a compact Petri net representation that is e cient to construct for concurrent programs that use explicit tasking and rendezvous style communication. These Pet...
Matthew B. Dwyer, Lori A. Clarke, Kari A. Nies