Analysis of the Documentation of ERP Software Projects

Realization of Presentation layer information of Legacy Java Enterprise Applications Through Design Pattern’s Recovery

“…This approach is implemented in the J2EE Pattern Detection Tool, which is capable of extracting Patterndescriptionsfrom the source code of designated applications. The results validate the approach through open-source ERPs [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] . However, manual inspection of the outcome is needed to avoid false positives.…”

“…The results of the proposed approach were compared with the existing approach [1] on earlier mentioned open source Enterprise Applications [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. The outcome clearly shows the realization of a complete catalog of Presentation Tier Patterns instances from every application.…”

“…It is required to validate the proposed methodology for the identification of Presentation Tier Patterns based on extended feature types (Figure7) through reliable and most recent Enterprise Applications. For this purpose, In this section, the evaluation process is performed on reputable medium and large-scale enterprises Applications including Java Pet Store, EJBCA, Apache OFBIZ, Open Brava, and GeoServer, [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. More, the documentation and source code of these ERP applications is available and free to use.…”

“…Primarily, found some false positives but all of them were removed when we narrow down the criteria and refine the actual pattern definition with the pattern detection algorithm. Moreover, we did not find some presentation tier Patterns instances from the selected applications [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. We discovered through manual research that the source code for these patterns didnot match the stated principles offered by the solarmicro system and did not follow the definite structure.…”

“…The external validity demands generalization of approach on large scale. For this purpose, we initial tested our system on JPET Store [22] by sun microsystems, then we further evaluated our approach on famous and commonly used medium/ large scaled ERPs [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] .All of these applications are open source and their documentation is available for further validation [32][33][34][35][36]. All the extracted pattern instances for the presentation tier are manually inspected and found correct, however, generalization in terms of precision and recall for all presentation tier pattern instances is quite challenging.…”