A method for the manual extraction of business rules from legacy source code

BT Technology Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 127-145

  Earls, Andy B ^a   Embury, Suzanne M ^a   Turner, Nigel H ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INFORMATION SCIENCE; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

LEGACY SOURCE CODE;

LEGACY SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036821546     PISSN: 13583948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021311932020     Document Type: Article

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