Year: 1997
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Since the 1980s, software maintenance started to attract attention. Some progress has been made in using formal methods on software maintenance, especially on reverse engineering. This paper attempts to summarise some major advances in this area over the last one and a half decades. Firstly, we introduce program transformation techniques for software development and review the techniques used for software maintenance. We then describe a method for reverse engineering and reusing COBOL programs using program transformations. Finally, we suggest a future investigation direction for this work.
Authors: Hongji Yang, Yong Sun
Institutions: De Montfort University, Queen's University Belfast
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W17830886