Reverse Engineering and Software Maintenance
A Practical Approach
Published on 30. November 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-07-707897-3 (ISBN)
Description
This work provides an in-depth survey of current tools, techniques and research in reverse engineering and software maintenance. The growth in demand for software maintenance has contributed to a "software crisis" and this is analyzed with the suggestion of various long-term educational and technical solutions. Using real examples, process models are detailed and techniques involving object-oriented design abstraction are developed. Examples are provided in COBOL, FORTRAN, C and Prolog, and there are three major case studies in COBOL and FORTRAN. Theoretical foundations are given in the Z specification language, and techniques for the integration of structured and formal methods are provided.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
27ill.
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Weight
5200 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-707897-3 (9780077078973)
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Content
Software maintenance - the neglected 80per cent of software engineering; at the coal face - maintenance in practice; current research directions; mathematical background 1 - logic; mathematical background 2 - program semantics; a process model for maintenance and reverse engineering; application understanding and reverse engineering; structured and formal methods.