A Bimodal Approach for the Discovery of a View of the Implementation Platform of Legacy Object-Oriented Systems under Modernization Process

14 pages•Published: March 9, 2020

Hamza Abdelmalek, Gino Chénard, Ismaïl Khriss and Abdeslam Jakimi

Abstract

Organizations are highly dependent on their software in carrying out their daily activities. Unfortunately, the repeated changes that are applied to these systems make their evolution difficult. This evolution may be necessary to maintain the software, replace or upgrade it. In the case of complex and poorly documented legacy systems, modernization is the only feasible solution to achieving the evolution goals. The OMG (Object Management Group) consortium created the Architecture-Driven Modernization (ADM) initiative to cope with the challenges of modernization. This initiative proposes, among other things, modernization through model-driven engineering (MDE). In this context, the modernization of a legacy system, not developed in an MDE environment, begins with its migration towards this type of environment. This migration raises the problem of finding the models necessary for the use of MDE representing this system.
In this paper, we present a new bimodal approach to ADM modernization by enabling automatic and interactive modes to discover a view of the implementation platform of a legacy object-oriented system. Also, we present the key ideas of the algorithms behind this discovery process. Finally, we describe our prototype tool that implements our approach. This tool has been validated on several systems written in C# and Java languages.

Keyphrases: architecture driven modernization, code analysis, model driven architecture, model driven engineering, reverse engineering, software comprehension, software evolution, software modernization

In: Gordon Lee and Ying Jin (editors). Proceedings of 35th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications, vol 69, pages 98-111.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/7FXt
	https://doi.org/10.29007/rbp7

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{CATA2020:Bimodal_Approach_Discovery_View,
  author    = {Hamza Abdelmalek and Gino Chénard and Ismaïl Khriss and Abdeslam Jakimi},
  title     = {A Bimodal Approach for the Discovery of a View of the Implementation Platform of Legacy Object-Oriented Systems under Modernization Process},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of 35th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications},
  editor    = {Gordon Lee and Ying Jin},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Computing},
  volume    = {69},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2398-7340},
  url       = {/publications/paper/7FXt},
  doi       = {10.29007/rbp7},
  pages     = {98-111},
  year      = {2020}}

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