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Towards the automatic discovery of platform transformation templates of legacy object-oriented systems

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Ismaïl Khriss,

Aziz SalahAuthors Info & Claims

ME '12: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Models and Evolution

Pages 51 - 56

https://doi.org/10.1145/2523599.2523609

Published: 01 October 2012 Publication History

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Software modernization is needed to perform the evolution of a system when conventional practices can no longer achieve the desired evolution goal. In their initiative called architecture-driven modernization (ADM), the Object Management Group proposes to use MDA to perform this modernization. However, ADM needs new tools and techniques to migrate systems developed on a non-model-driven environment to a model-driven environment. One challenge to enable this migration is the discovery of a platform description model (PDM) from the implementation of a system. In this paper, we propose an approach to discover a view of the PDM from an object-oriented system source code. This view is given as a set of transformation templates parameterizing the source code of the system's implementation platform and expressed in the QVT language. The approach uses different analysis techniques and was validated on several systems written in Java and gives good results for a number of them.

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Leon PHorita F(2021)On the modernization of systems for supporting digital transformation: A research agendaProceedings of the XVII Brazilian Symposium on Information Systems10.1145/3466933.3466976(1-8)Online publication date: 7-Jun-2021
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Towards the automatic discovery of platform transformation templates of legacy object-oriented systems
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Software management
        Software maintenance
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software post-development issues

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Alt R(2022)Electronic Markets on platform transformationElectronic Markets10.1007/s12525-022-00569-532:2(401-409)Online publication date: 27-Jul-2022
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Leon PHorita F(2021)On the modernization of systems for supporting digital transformation: A research agendaProceedings of the XVII Brazilian Symposium on Information Systems10.1145/3466933.3466976(1-8)Online publication date: 7-Jun-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3466933.3466976
Rost WGuerra EIovino L(2020)Mining of DSLs and generator templates from reference applicationsProceedings of the 23rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: Companion Proceedings10.1145/3417990.3419492(1-7)Online publication date: 16-Oct-2020
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