Maintaining a legacy: Towards support at the architectural level

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 143-170

  Bril, Reinder J ^a,f,g,h   Feijs, Loe M G ^a,b,i   Glas, André ^b,c,h   Krikhaar, René L ^d,j   Winter, M R M ^a,b,e,f,k,l  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL AEROSPACE LABORATORY NLR   (Netherlands)

^d PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^e PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^f Philips Business Communications   (Netherlands)

^g Quality of Service (QoS)   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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^j UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^k Philips Innovation Centre   (India)

^l UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

Architectural views; Complexity control; Legacy systems; Program understanding; Reverse architecting; Software architecture; Visualization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; VISUALIZATION;

COMPLEXITY CONTROL; PROGRAM UNDERSTANDING; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE INTENSIVE SYSTEMS;

LEGACY SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034179793     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1096-908x(200005/06)12:3<143::aid-smr207>3.0.co;2-7     Document Type: Article

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