Reverse engineering object-oriented distributed systems

A significant part of the modern software systems are designed and implemented as object-oriented distributed applications, addressing the needs of a globally-connected society. While they can be analyzed focusing only on their object-oriented nature, their understanding and quality assessment requi...

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Published in2010 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance pp. 1 - 6
Main Author Cosma, Dan C
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.09.2010
Subjects
Analytical models
Feature extraction
Layout
Object oriented modeling
Reverse engineering
Software
Visualization
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Summary:A significant part of the modern software systems are designed and implemented as object-oriented distributed applications, addressing the needs of a globally-connected society. While they can be analyzed focusing only on their object-oriented nature, their understanding and quality assessment require very specific, technology-dependent analysis approaches. This doctoral dissertation describes a methodology for understanding object-oriented distributed systems using a process of reverse engineering driven by the assessment of their technological and domain-specific particularities. The approach provides both system-wide and class-level characterizations, capturing the architectural traits of the systems, and assessing the impact of the distribution-aware features throughout the application. The methodology describes a mostly-automated analysis process fully supported by a tools infrastructure, providing means for detailed understanding of the distribution-related traits and including basic support for the potentially consequent system restructuring.
ISBN:9781424486304
1424486300
ISSN:1063-6773
2576-3148
DOI:10.1109/ICSM.2010.5609716