Iterative reengineering of legacy systems

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 225-241

  Bianchi, Alessandro ^a   Caivano, Danilo ^a   Marengo, Vittorio ^a   Visaggio, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Legacy system rejuvenation; Reengineering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; ITERATIVE METHODS; PROCESS CONTROL; QUALITY CONTROL; REENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE QUALITY;

LEGACY SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037340024     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2003.1183932     Document Type: Conference Paper

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