Software re‐engineering: concepts and methodology

Behling, Robert; Behling, Chris; Sousa, Kenneth J.

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“…For software engineers, establishing an understanding of a large-scale software system is essential for starting work on a settled project and regaining design knowledge of a legacy system [7,30]. The exploration of a software system ideally starts with the system's architecture [15] to gain both an overview of as well as guidance through the system's coarsegrained structure.…”

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Utilizing Software Architecture Recovery to Explore Large-Scale Software Systems in Virtual Reality

Hoff

Gerling

Seidl

2022

2022 Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT)

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Exploring an unfamiliar large-scale software system is challenging, especially when based solely on source code. While software visualizations help in gaining an overview of a system, they generally neglect architecture knowledge in their representations, e.g., by arranging elements along package structures rather than functional components or locking users in a specific abstraction only slightly above the source code. In this paper, we introduce an automated approach for software architecture recovery and use its results in an immersive 3D virtual reality software visualization to aid accessing and relating architecture knowledge. We further provide a semantic zoom that allows a user to access and relate information both horizontally on the same abstraction level, e.g., by following method calls, and vertically across different abstraction levels, e.g., from a class to its containing component. We evaluate our contribution in a controlled experiment contrasting the usefulness regarding software exploration and comprehension of our concepts with those of the established CityVR visualization and the Eclipse IDE.

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Utilizing Software Architecture Recovery to Explore Large-Scale Software Systems in Virtual Reality

Hoff

Gerling

Seidl

2022

2022 Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT)

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“…Students can appropriately understand them by imagining, since many students learn such theories for the first time when they attend university lectures. In many engineering education, students can sometimes visually understand through experiments and exercises (e.g., Behling et al, 1996;Colomo-Palacios et al, 2008;Garcia-Crespo et al, 2009a). However, it is difficult for many students to grasp and design software, since software is not visual.…”

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Analogical Thinking Based Instruction Method in IT Professional Education

Matsuo

Fujimoto

2010

International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals

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In designing a new teaching system, a challenging issue is how the system intelligently supports learners. This paper describes a methodology and a system design on the intelligent instruction support for software engineering education. For information science courses at a university, software engineering subjects are usually compulsory and students study dominant conceptions of implementation like software architecture, and the methodology of software design in software engineering lectures. To enhance learners’ understanding, the authors design a novel instructional model based on the analogical thinking theory. The analogical thinking-based instruction consists of concrete teaching methods like analogy dropping method, self role-play method, and the anthropomorphic thinking method. Questionnaires for learners after the instructions give results of effective education in an actual trial. The contribution of this paper is to provide a new instruction theory, the way of educational practice method, and implementation of the system.

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“…Even though widespread adoption of BPR is being done, it has shown promising results only in lesser number of cases (Al-Mashari et al, 2001). There are papers available in the literature about software re-engineering activities and processes for developing and maintaining quality systems (Behling et al, 1996). Some literature highlight the differences between the claims of tool vendors and the actual capabilities of the BPR tools (Bing and Wright, 1997).…”

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An object oriented intelligent environment for ERP systems

Subramoniam

Tounsi

2009

Business Process Management Journal

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate object-oriented (OO) features in a language, suitable for artificial intelligence (AI), which will execute in a web environment. Earlier researchers have claimed that such a possibility will pave the way for better enterprise systems of tomorrow. Design/methodology/approach -In this paper, the key OO features, inheritance and polymorphism, are presented using suitable examples. Visual Prologe is the language used to demonstrate the examples and the same executes in web environment. Findings -This premise definitely matches the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of existing systems which can aptly be called business process reengineering (BPR) in this field of study. A monolithic/homogeneous expert database design based system supporting AI and OO capabilities which executes in web environment is the result of this study. Research limitations/implications -There is no argument about the optimality of the search which is carried out while using this environment, which is purely based on the computer language used. Practical implications -The power of similar environment has enormous potential in developing better enterprise systems of tomorrow. This declarative environment helps enterprise resource planning (ERP) evolve faster towards strategic decision making rather than remaining as transaction processing systems. Originality/value -It is hoped that this paper will inspire other researchers in the field of BPR of existing ERP systems.

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Software re‐engineering: concepts and methodology

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

Utilizing Software Architecture Recovery to Explore Large-Scale Software Systems in Virtual Reality

Utilizing Software Architecture Recovery to Explore Large-Scale Software Systems in Virtual Reality

Analogical Thinking Based Instruction Method in IT Professional Education

An object oriented intelligent environment for ERP systems

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