Successful evolution of software systems / / Hongji Yang, Martin Ward

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910827469303321
• Autore: Yang Hongji
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boston, : Artech House, c2003
• ISBN: 1-58053-588-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (298 p.)
• Collana: Artech House Artech software engineering
• Altri autori (Persone): WardMartin, Dr.
• Disciplina: 005.1
• Soggetti: Software maintenance; Software reengineering
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Artech House computer library."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Constant Software Changes -- 2. Software Engineering and Evolution -- 3. Software Reengineering for Evolution -- 4. WSL and Transformation Theory -- 5. The FermaT Evolution Workbench --
• Sommario/riassunto: Annotation Explores the feasibility of using techniques such as program transformation and program abstraction to re-engineer and extend the life of an existing IT system. The authors (De Montfort University) outline a program transformation-based evolution workbench called FermaT, the architecture of the wide spectrum language (WSL), and a process for evolving object-oriented, real-time, and parallel systems. The final chapter presents six case studies that use FermaT and re- engineering assistant tools to evolve from source code to specifications or to new source code in a different language. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.