An analysis of incremental assistant capabilities of a software evolution expert system

Avellis, Giovanna; Iacobbe, A.; Palmisano, Davide; Semeraro, Giovanni; Tinelli, Cesare

doi:10.1109/icsm.1991.160334

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“…Whilst some work has been conducted in developing more reliable reverse-engineering tools, which explore the relationship between organization and IT system and output models at higher levels of abstraction (e.g. Karakostas, 1992;Avellis et al, 1991;Sneed and Jandrasics, 1988), they do not recognize that knowledge sources, other than source code, can play an effective role in the reverse-engineering process.…”

Section: The Organization-it Relationshipmentioning

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Improving reverse‐engineering through the use of multiple knowledge sources

Layzell

Freeman

Benedusi

1995

J. Softw. Maint: Res. Pract.

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With the growing awareness of the importance of software maintenance has come a re-evaluation of software maintenance tools. Such tools range from source code analysers to semi-intelligent tools which seek to reconstruct system designs and specification documents from source code. However, it is clear that relying solely upon source code as a basis for reverse-engineering has many problems.These problems include poor abstraction, which leads to over-detailed specification models and the inability to link other parts of a software system, such as documentation and user expertise, to the underlying code.This paper describes the work of the Esprit DOCKET project which has developed a prototype environment to support the development of a system model linking user-oriented, business aspects of a system, to operational code using a variety of knowledge source inputs: code, documents and user expertise. The aim is to provide a coherent model to form the basis for system understanding and to support the software change and evolution process.

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Section: The Organization-it Relationshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Improving reverse‐engineering through the use of multiple knowledge sources

Layzell

Freeman

Benedusi

1995

J. Softw. Maint: Res. Pract.

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“…Research in this direction is described by Avellis et al [7] who propose an enhanced view of a software system, the Software System Model (SSM) and a Software Evolution Expert System (SEES) with four basic functionalities.…”

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A combined representation for the maintenance of C programs

Kinloch

Munro

[1993] IEEE Second Workshop on Program Comprehension

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CASE support for software evolution: a dependency approach to control the change process

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[1992] Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Computer-Aided Software Engineering

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An analysis of incremental assistant capabilities of a software evolution expert system

Cited by 5 publications

References 14 publications

Improving reverse‐engineering through the use of multiple knowledge sources

Improving reverse‐engineering through the use of multiple knowledge sources

A combined representation for the maintenance of C programs

CASE support for software evolution: a dependency approach to control the change process

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