A Concept Formation Based Approach to Object Identification in Procedural Code

by

H. A. Sahraoui, H. Lounis, W. L. Melo and H. Mili

In Automated Software Engineering Journal: An International Journal

Abstract:

Legacy software systems present a high level of entropy combined with imprecise documentation. This 
makes their maintenance more difficult, more time consuming, and costlier. In order to address these 
issues, many organizations have been migrating their legacy systems to emerging technologies. In this 
paper, we describe a computer-supported approach aimed at supporting the migration of procedural 
software systems to the object-oriented (OO) technology. Our approach is based on the automatic 
formation of concepts, and uses information extracted directly from code to identify objects. The 
approach tends, thus, to minimize the need for domain application experts.

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