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Evaluating legacy system migration technologies through empirical studies

Authors:

Massimo Colosimo,

Andrea De Lucia,

Giuseppe Scanniello,

Genoveffa TortoraAuthors Info & Claims

Information and Software Technology, Volume 51, Issue 2

Pages 433 - 447

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2008.05.012

Published: 01 February 2009 Publication History

Abstract

We present two controlled experiments conducted with master students and practitioners and a case study conducted with practitioners to evaluate the use of MELIS (Migration Environment for Legacy Information Systems) for the migration of legacy COBOL programs to the web. MELIS has been developed as an Eclipse plug-in within a technology transfer project conducted with a small software company [16]. The partner company has developed and marketed in the last 30 years several COBOL systems that need to be migrated to the web, due to the increasing requests of the customers. The goal of the technology transfer project was to define a systematic migration strategy and the supporting tools to migrate these COBOL systems to the web and make the partner company an owner of the developed technology. The goal of the controlled experiments and case study was to evaluate the effectiveness of introducing MELIS in the partner company and compare it with traditional software development environments. The results of the overall experimentation show that the use of MELIS increases the productivity and reduces the gap between novice and expert software engineers.

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