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WCRE
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
MoJo: A Distance Metric for Software Clusterings
The software clustering problem has attracted much attention recently, since it is an integral part of the process of reverse engineering large software systems. A key problem in ...
Vassilios Tzerpos, Richard C. Holt
WCRE
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A Tool for Securely Integrating Legacy Systems into a Distributed Environment
Legacy systems provide services that remain useful beyond the means of the technology in which they were originally implemented. Our Legacy Wrapper tool packages the services of a...
Timothy S. Souder, Spiros Mancoridis
WCRE
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Restructuring Functions with Low Cohesion
We present a technique for restructuring functions with low cohesion into functions with high cohesion. Such restructuring is desirable when re-architecting a legacy system into a...
Arun Lakhotia, Jean-Christophe Deprez
WCRE
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
An Incremental Semi-Automatic Method for Component Recovery
Atomic components are sets of related variables, types, rograms, e.g., abstract data types and objects. Many techniques exist to detect them automatically. However, as an evaluati...
Rainer Koschke
WCRE
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Chava: Reverse Engineering and Tracking of Java Applets
Java applets have been used increasingly on web sites to perform client-side processing and provide dynamic content. While many web site analysis tools are available, their focus ...
Jeffrey L. Korn, Yih-Farn Chen, Eleftherios Koutso...
WCRE
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Software Architectural Transformation
Software architecture, as a vehicle for communication and reasoning about software systems and their quality, is becoming an area of focus in both the forward- and reverseengineer...
S. Jeromy Carrière, Steven G. Woods, Rick K...
WCRE
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Reusing Domains for the Construction of Reverse Engineering Tools
One of the challenges of reverse engineering is the extraction of a specification from source code. Our work proposes a singular approach to the construction of reverse engineerin...
Felipe Gouveia de Freitas, Julio Cesar Sampaio do ...
WCRE
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Type-Check Elimination: Two Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns
In reengineering an object-oriented system we want to benefit from the expertise developed in earlier efforts. It is therefore essential to have a way to communicate expertise at ...
Stéphane Ducasse, Tamar Richner, Robb Nebbe
WCRE
1999
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
An Industrial Example of Database Reverse Engineering
This paper presents an industrial example of database reverse engineering. The example has been abridged so that it fits within a paper. Also some of the field names have been dis...
Michael R. Blaha