Types and concept analysis for legacy systems

TitleTypes and concept analysis for legacy systems
Publication TypeBook Chapter
Year of Publication2000
AuthorsKuipers T, Moonen LMF
Book Title290
Pagination15
PublisherCentrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI)
CityISSN 1386-369X
Keywordsconcept analysis., program analysis, program understanding, software maintenance, type inference
AbstractWe combine type inference and concept analysis in order to gain insight into legacy software systems. Type inference for Cobol yields the types for variables and program parameters. These types are used to perform mathematical concept analysis on legacy systems. We have developed ConceptRefinery, a tool for interactively manipulating concepts. We show how this tools facilitates experiments with concept analysis, and lets reengineers employ their knowedge of the legacy system to refine the results of concept analysis.
URLhttp://www.cwi.nl/ftp/CWIreports/SEN/SEN-R0017.ps.Z