Recovering business rules from legacy source code for system modernization

Authors:
Erik Putrycz;Anatol W. Kark
Affiliations:
Software Engineering Group, National Research Council Canada;Software Engineering Group, National Research Council Canada
Venue:
RuleML'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Advances in rule interchange and applications
Year:
2007

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Abstract

By using several reverse engineering tools and techniques, it is possible to extract business rules from the legacy source code that are easy to understand by the non-IT experts. These business rules can be used at different stages of system modernization. System maintainers can use the rules to locate in the code parts affected by a change in a rule. Business analysts can use those rules as means to aide understanding of the system at a business level. The extracted rules can serve as source of documentation and possible input for configuring a new system. This paper presents a novel approach for extracting business rules from legacy source code and application of the results at different stages of system modernization.