The Software Bookshelf

Design recovery and maintenance of build systems

“…At the same time, a static build script as well as in the proper build scripts: parser is another way to accommodate variant checking. As a lot of reverse-engineering tools apply Holt's Tuple- 10 cc_'eaver~weaver ("aspicere-co", 1)…”

Using aspect orientation in legacy environments for reverse engineering using dynamic analysis—An industrial experience report

“…Most of them leverage static analysis to accomplish their task on a repository of facts extracted from source code, linked object files, etc. Combining various approaches has led, e.g., to the Portable BookShelf [34]. We believe that the results of our dynamic analyses are complimentary to these efforts and enhance them to get a more complete, dynamic view on a (legacy) software system.…”

Comprehending reality - practical barriers to industrial adoption of software maintenance automation

“…Implications of social and technical culture on software maintenance have been studied by Janice Singer [40] and Timothy Lethbridge [41]. Ric Holt, Hausi Müller, John Mylopoulos and Kostas Kontogiannis have reported experience with many realities of the industrial software development environment at IBM [25], and recently Müller's group has focussed on adoption as a primary goal [42]. My apologies to the many others studying technology adoption and other topics who in my ignorance I have forgotten or may not be aware of.…”

“…Experiments in the practical application of these techniques by Holt et al [24,25], Müller et al [26,27,28], Klint et al [29,30,31], Sneed [32,33] and others have shown that they are practical and useful in industry. Moreover, the success of companies such as Legasys Corporation, Formal Systems, Semantic Designs and others using design recovery and other formal analysis techniques to attack the Year 2000 ("Y2K") problem have demonstrated that large productivity gains and cost reductions can be obtained when software maintenance is assisted by program comprehension.…”