An overall process based on fusion to reverse engineer legacy code

The fusion method for object-oriented development of systems is used for reverse engineering of legacy code. A literature survey is presented on relevant techniques available for covering most of the activities involved in conducting reverse engineering. Using these techniques, an overall process, b...

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Published inProceedings of WCRE '96: 4rd Working Conference on Reverse Engineering pp. 179 - 188
Main Authors Penteado, R.D., Germano, F.S.R., Masiero, P.C.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 1996
Subjects
Costs
Design methodology
Documentation
Guidelines
Jacobian matrices
Object oriented modeling
Reverse engineering
Software engineering
Virtual prototyping
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Summary:The fusion method for object-oriented development of systems is used for reverse engineering of legacy code. A literature survey is presented on relevant techniques available for covering most of the activities involved in conducting reverse engineering. Using these techniques, an overall process, based on the fusion method, called Fusion/RE, is presented. Fusion/RE was used to reverse engineer an existing environment for editing and simulating statecharts. Selected parts of the sample application documentation are included, together with a discussion of the benefits obtained. The main features of Fusion/RE include its extensibility to integrate new heuristics and tools for data reverse engineering and some metrics that allow one to assess the conversion effort.
ISBN:9780818676741
0818676744
DOI:10.1109/WCRE.1996.558902