Dimensions of reengineering environment infrastructures

Abstract

SUMMARYOver the last decade many research groups and commercial companies have been developing reengineering environments. However, many design decisions such as support for multiple models, incremental loading of information, tool integration, entity grouping, and their impacts on the underlying meta-model and resulting environment have remained implicit. Based on the experience accumulated while developing the Moose reengineering environment and on a survey of reengineering environments, we present a design space defined by a set of criteria that makes explicit the different options and especially their dependencies and trade-offs. Using this design space, developers of future environments should have a better understanding of the problems they face and the impact of design choices.

Software Architecture Reconstruction: A Process-Oriented Taxonomy

“…There is a variety of formalisms used to represent, query and exchange the data representing applications [30,50,135]. A couple of exchange formats exist from simple textual tuples in RSF [173] or in TA [12,42,66,144], to XML in GXL [33,65,134], or to CDIF in FAMIX [23].…”

“…A couple of exchange formats exist from simple textual tuples in RSF [173] or in TA [12,42,66,144], to XML in GXL [33,65,134], or to CDIF in FAMIX [23]. The format may limit the merging or manipulation of the information it represents [30]. An important property of an exchange format is that it can be easily generated and used with simple tools [25].…”

The story of moose

“…In essence, Moose functions as a repository for software models, providing numerous services for importing, viewing, querying and manipulating these models [22]. 1 At the core of Moose is the language-independent metamodel.…”

“…Moose is a reengineering environment that offers a common infrastructure for various reverse-and re-engineering tools [22]. At the core of Moose is a common meta-model for representing software systems in a language-independent way.…”