Using design recovery techniques to transform legacy systems

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 622-631

  Dean, Thomas R ^a,b   Cordy, James R ^a   Schneider, Kevin A ^a,d   Malton, Andrew J ^a,c  

^a Legasys Corporation   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN RECOVERY; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

CENTURY YEAR PROBLEM; COBOL (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA STRUCTURES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PROLOG (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

LEGACY SYSTEMS;

EID: 0010310582     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2001.972779     Document Type: Conference Paper

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