{"title":"A program transformation approach to automating software re-engineering","authors":"Scott Burson, Gordon Kotik, L. Markosian","doi":"10.1109/CMPSAC.1990.139375","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The authors describe a novel approach to software re-engineering that combines several technologies: object-oriented databases integrated with parser, for capturing the software to be re-engineered; specification and pattern languages for querying and analyzing a database of software; and transformation rules for automatically generating re-engineered code. The authors then describe REFINE, an environment for program representation, analysis, and transformation that provides the tools needed to implement the automation of software maintenance and re-engineering. The transformational approach is illustrated with examples taken from actual experience in re-engineering software in C, JCL and NATURAL. It is concluded that the ability to support automation in modifying large software systems by using rule-based program transformation is a key innovation of the present approach that distinguishes it from tools that focus only on automation of program analysis.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":127509,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings., Fourteenth Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference","volume":"69 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1990-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"81","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings., Fourteenth Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPSAC.1990.139375","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The authors describe a novel approach to software re-engineering that combines several technologies: object-oriented databases integrated with parser, for capturing the software to be re-engineered; specification and pattern languages for querying and analyzing a database of software; and transformation rules for automatically generating re-engineered code. The authors then describe REFINE, an environment for program representation, analysis, and transformation that provides the tools needed to implement the automation of software maintenance and re-engineering. The transformational approach is illustrated with examples taken from actual experience in re-engineering software in C, JCL and NATURAL. It is concluded that the ability to support automation in modifying large software systems by using rule-based program transformation is a key innovation of the present approach that distinguishes it from tools that focus only on automation of program analysis.<>
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