CO77206 System Re-engineering

Course Outline and Reading List

This list is a working list. The items in red are the ones required so far.

1. Legacy Systems and Software Aging

· Software Aging

q John C. Munson, of the University of Idaho, believes that “Software Lives too Long”, IEEE Software 15(4), 1998 ¹

q Nicholas Zvegintzov, of the Software Management Network, disagrees, saying that “Software Should Live Longer”, IEEE Software 15(4), 1998. ²

q David L. Parnas describes the phenomenon of “Software Aging”, Proceedings of the 16 Int. Conf. on SE, 1994, pp 279-287. ³

· Legacy Systems

q Keith Bennett, “Legacy Systems: Coping with Success”, 12(1), pp. 19-23, 1995. ⁴

q Adolph, W.S. "Cash Cow in the Tar Pit: Reengineering a Legacy System," IEEE Software, May 1996, pp. 41-47 ⁵

q Ian Sommerville, “Legacy Systems”, Chapter 26 of Software Engineering, 6^th Edition, 2001. ⁶

2. Introduction to Software Evolution and Reengineering

· Software Evolution and Maintenance

q Ian Sommerville, Software Change, Chapter 27 of Software Engineering, 6^th Edition, 2001. ⁷

q L.K. Rierson, A systematic process for changing safety-critical software, In Proceedings of Digital Avionics Systems Conferences, 2000. Volume: 1 Page(s): 1B1/1-1B1/7 vol.1, 2000.⁸

· Software Reengineering

q Ian Sommerville, Software Reengineering, Chapter 28 of Software Engineering, 6^th Edition, 2001. ⁹

3. Reverse Engineering

· Program Analysis Methods (Control Flow and Dependency Analysis, Data Flow and Dependency Analysis, Slicing)

q DM. J. Harrold and G. Rothermel, “Notes on Representation and Analysis of Software” ¹⁰

q T. A. Corbi, “Program Understanding: Challenges for the 1990s”. IBM Systems Journal, 28(2), 1989. ¹¹

· Program Analysis and Visualization Tools

q CodeSurfer Technology Overview: Dependence Graphs and Program Slicing, GrammmaTech Inc.¹²

q Software Inspection Using CodeSurfer, GrammmaTech Inc.. ¹³

q CodeSurfer User Guide and Technical Reference. ¹⁴

q Imagix Corporation, Imagix 4D User Manual, 2002. ¹⁷

· Software Complexity and Maintenance Metrics

q Chapters 1 to 4 of: Arthur H. Watson and Thomas J. McCabe, Structured Testing: A Testing Methodology Using the Cyclomatic Complexity Metric, NIST Special Publication 500-235, Computer Systems Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 1996. ¹⁸

q Kurt D. Welker The Software Maintainability Index Revisited ¹⁹

q Software Engineering Institute, Halstead Complexity Measures ²⁰

4. Reengineering

· Refactoring

q Martin Fowler. Chapter 1 of "Refactoring: improving the design of existing code". Addison Wesley. 1999 ²¹

q Other Important Refactoring Resources.

· Code Transformation

q The TXL Programming Language, Version 10.3

q TXL Page

· Web Enabling

q Mohammad El-Ramly, Web-enabling Legacy Systems , Section 2.2 of Reverse Engineering Legacy User Interfaces Using Interaction Traces, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Canada, 2003.²⁴

5. Reengineering Strategies and Management

· Reengineering Management

q John Bergey, Dennis Smith and Scott Tilley, Nelson Weiderman and Steven Woods. Why Reengineering Projects Fail, (pdf ) Tech. Rep. CMU/SEI-99-TR-010, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April 1999. ²⁵

q John Bergey, Dennis Smith and Nelson Weiderman, DoD Legacy System Migration Guidelinesl, Technical Report CMU/SEI-99-TN-01, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1999. ²⁶

6. Additional Interesting Topics (if time permits)

· Clone Detection

q Ira D. Baxter, Andrew Yahin, Leonardo M. De Moura, Marcelo Sant'Anna, Lorraine Bier: Clone Detection Using Abstract Syntax Trees. ICSM 1998: 368-377

· Architecture Recovery

· Clustering

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1,2,3,4,5,6,7 Available in the library

8 Available at http://av-info.faa.gov/software/Other_Documents/safe-crit.rtf

9 Available in the library

10 Available at www-users.cs.umn.edu/~dliang/CSci8980/Readings/rep_and_analy.pdf

11 Available at http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/282/ibmsj2802H.pdf

12 Available at http://www.grammatech.com/research/slicing/slicingWhitePaper.pdf

13 Available at http://www.grammatech.com/research/papers/AndersonTeitelbaum.pdf

14 Available at http://www.grammatech.com/csurf-doc/CodeSurfer.html#manual.html & Locally with CodeSurfer Installation in MSc Lab.

17 Available with Imagix 4D Software in the Lab.