USING DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE TO IMPROVE REVERSE ENGINEERING
- 1 September 1996
- journal article
- Published by World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd in International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
- Vol. 6 (3) , 477-505
- https://doi.org/10.1142/s021819409600020x
Abstract
Integrating application domain knowledge into reverse engineering is an important step to overcome the shortcomings of conventional reverse engineering approaches that are based exclusively on information derivable from source code. In this paper, we show the basic concepts of a program transformation process from a conventional to an object-oriented architecture which incorporates extraneous higher-level knowledge in its process. To which degree this knowledge might stem from some general domain knowledge, and to which extent it needs to be introduced as application dependent knowledge by a human expert is discussed. The paper discusses these issues in the context of the architectural transformation of legacy systems to an object-oriented architecture.Keywords
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