Title
Restoring a Legacy: Lessons Learned
Abstract
Rebuilding a legacy system has some parallels to the restoration of a work of art. The authors draw upon this comparison to illustrate the challenges they faced in redesigning a telephony system. The restoration involved far more than updating the codeýthe development team also had to understand the existing architecture, add new functionality, and develop a long-term hardware migration plan. The technical and managerial lessons learned should prove valuable to those involved in similar projects.
Year
DOI
Venue
1998
10.1109/52.687941
IEEE Software
Keywords
Field
DocType
similar project,development team,new functionality,existing architecture,telephony system,managerial lesson,legacy system,lessons learned,long-term hardware migration plan,telephony,reverse engineering
Work of art,Architecture,Parallels,Software engineering,Systems engineering,Reverse engineering,Engineering,Telephony,Telecommunication computing,Legacy system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
15
4
0740-7459
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
1.26
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Spencer Rugaber161973.52
Jim White271.26