Paper Info
Title
Decomposing legacy programs: a first step towards migrating to client-server platforms
Abstract
A solution to the problem of salvaging the past investments in centralised, mainframe-oriented software development, while keeping competitive in the dynamic business world, consists of migrating legacy systems towards more modern environments, in particular client–server platforms. However, a migration process entails costs and risks that depend on the characteristics of both the architecture of the source system and the target client–server platform. We propose an approach to program decomposition as a preliminary step for the migration of legacy systems. A program slicing algorithm is defined to identify the statements implementing the user interface component. An interactive re-engineering tool is also presented that supports the software engineer in the comprehension of the source code during the decomposition of a program. The focus of this paper is on the partition of a legacy system, while issues related to the re-engineering, encapsulation, and wrapping of the legacy components and to the definition of the middleware layer through which they communicate are not tackled.
Year
DOI
Venue
1998
10.1016/S0164-1212(00)00030-3
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue on software maintenance
Keywords
DocType
Volume
decomposing legacy program,decomposing legacy programs,first step,client-server platforms,client server,logic,computer architecture,software maintenance,leg,programming,documentation,user interface,software systems,source code,middleware,software development,reverse engineering,databases,program slicing,legacy system,software engineering
Conference
54
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0164-1212
43
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.86
16
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gerardo Canfora14586271.47
Aniello Cimitile2110593.89
Andrea De Lucia34432217.26
Giuseppe A. Di Lucca453840.02