Recovering business processes from business applications

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 315-348

  Zou, Ying ^a   Guo, Jin ^a   Foo, King Chun ^a   Hung, Maokeng ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ASUS Tek Computer Inc   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Business application; Business process recovery; Program comprehension; Static analysis

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS APPLICATION; BUSINESS APPLICATIONS; BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS RECOVERY; CREDIT CARDS; ERROR PRONES; FLOW OF CONTROL; HIGH PRECISION; IN-DEPTH UNDERSTANDING; MULTI-TIERED; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; PROCESS DEFINITION; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION;

RESEARCH;

STATIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 70349442463     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: 15320618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smr.410     Document Type: Article

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