A Hybrid Reverse Engineering Approach Combining Metrics and Program Visualization (1999)
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| Venue: | Proc. of the Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE'99), IEEE |
| Citations: | 23 - 2 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Demeyer99ahybrid,
author = {Serge Demeyer and Stéphane Ducasse and Michele Lanza},
title = {A Hybrid Reverse Engineering Approach Combining Metrics and Program Visualization},
booktitle = {Proc. of the Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE'99), IEEE},
year = {1999},
pages = {175--186},
publisher = {Society Press}
}
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Abstract
The reverse engineering of large scale object-oriented legacy systems is a challenging task with a definite need for approaches helping to have a fast overview and to focus on the problematic parts. This paper investigates a hybrid approach, combining the immediate appeal of visualizations with the scalability of metrics. We validate our approach by showing how CodeCrawler, the experimental platform we built allowed us to reengineer some applications. Keywords: Reverse Engineering, Program Visualization, Software Metrics, CodeCrawler 1 Introduction "While the benefits of object-oriented technology are widely recognized, the indiscriminate use of object-oriented mechanisms and weaknesses in analysis and design methods are rapidly leading to a new generation of inflexible legacy systems." [4]. The ability to reverse engineer object-oriented legacy systems has become a vital matter in today's software industry. Early adopters of the object-oriented programming paradigm are now fa...
