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A Tool to Reengineer Legacy Systems to Object-Oriented Systems

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Advances in Conceptual Modeling (ER 1999)

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Software evolution is an inevitable process for software systems. Repeated changes alter the structure of a system, rapidly degrading it and making the system “legacy”. Reengineering seems to be a promising approach to upgrade these systems according to the latest technologies. This paper describes a tool to reengineer procedural systems written in Cobol, Fortran, C or Pascal, into object-oriented ones written in Smalltalk. The prototype developed identifies potential classes automatically, but allows user intervention to work up conflicts.

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  1. Instituto de Sistemas de Tandil Depto. Computatión y Sistemas - Fac. Cs. Exactas, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Pcia. de Bs. As., Argentina

    Hernán Cobo, Virginia Mauco, María Romero & Carlota Rodríguez

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, 298 Coates Hall, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA

    Peter P. Chen

  2. Department of Computer Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 84602, USA

    David W. Embley

  3. INSA-LISI, 20 Avenue Albert Einstein, F-69621, Villeurbanne Cedex, France

    Jacques Kouloumdjian

  4. Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University, P.O. Box 23087, Provo, UT, 84602-3087, USA

    Stephen W. Liddle

  5. School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, 5095, South Australia

    John F. Roddick

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Cobo, H., Mauco, V., Romero, M., Rodríguez, C. (1999). A Tool to Reengineer Legacy Systems to Object-Oriented Systems. In: Chen, P.P., Embley, D.W., Kouloumdjian, J., Liddle, S.W., Roddick, J.F. (eds) Advances in Conceptual Modeling. ER 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1727. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48054-4_16

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