A Concept Formation Based Approach to Object Identification in Procedural Code

Authors:
Houari A. Sahraoui;Hakim Lounis;Walcélio Melo;Hafedh Mili
Affiliations:
Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montréal. hsahraou@crim.ca;Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montréal. hlounis@crim.ca;Oracle do Brasil and Universidade Catolica de Brasilia, Dept. de Ciencia da Computacao. wmelo@br.oracle.com;Université du Quebec À Montréal, Dept. Informatique. hafedh.mili@uqam.ca
Venue:
Automated Software Engineering
Year:
1999

Citing 22
Cited 7

Software engineering: a practitioner's approach (2nd ed.)

Software engineering: a practitioner's approach (2nd ed.)
Program understanding: challenge for the 1990's

IBM Systems Journal
Reengineering of old systems to an object-oriented architecture

OOPSLA '91 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
Using Program Slicing in Software Maintenance

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A software metric system for module coupling

Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue on the Oregon Metric Workshop
Building and maintaining analysis-level class hierarchies using Galois Lattices

OOPSLA '93 Proceedings of the eighth annual conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
Software engineering (4th ed.)

Software engineering (4th ed.)
An improved algorithm for identifying objects in code

Software—Practice & Experience
On behavioral descriptions in object-oriented modeling

Journal of Systems and Software
Assessing modular structure of legacy code based on mathematical concept analysis

ICSE '97 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Software engineering
An intelligent tool for re-engineering software modularity

ICSE '91 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Software engineering
Automating the detection of reusable parts in existing software

ICSE '93 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Software Engineering
Software Salvaging Based on Conditions

ICSM '94 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance
Identifying modules via concept analysis

ICSM '97 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance
Function Recovery Based on Program Slicing

ICSM '93 Proceedings of the Conference on Software Maintenance
The METAGEN System

AMAST '95 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology
A metric-based approach to detect abstract data types and state encapsulations

ASE '97 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Automated software engineering (formerly: KBSE)
Extracting objects from legacy imperative code

ASE '97 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Automated software engineering (formerly: KBSE)
Applying concept formation methods to object identification in procedural code

ASE '97 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Automated software engineering (formerly: KBSE)
Recovering abstract data types and object instances from a conventional procedural language

WCRE '95 Proceedings of the Second Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
Recognizers for extracting architectural features from source code

WCRE '95 Proceedings of the Second Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
Finding objects in procedural programs: an alternative approach

WCRE '95 Proceedings of the Second Working Conference on Reverse Engineering

Clustering and concept analysis for software evolution

IWPSE '01 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution
Re-engineering global variables in Ada

Proceedings of the 2004 annual ACM SIGAda international conference on Ada: The engineering of correct and reliable software for real-time & distributed systems using Ada and related technologies
Program comprehension with dynamic recovery of code collaboration patterns and roles

CASCON '04 Proceedings of the 2004 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
Identifying components in object-oriented programs using dynamic analysis and clustering

CASCON '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research
Refactorings of design defects using relational concept analysis

ICFCA'08 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Formal concept analysis
Software clustering by example

Proceedings of the 13th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation
Formal concept analysis-based class hierarchy design in object-oriented software development

Formal Concept Analysis

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Legacy software systems present a high level of entropycombined with imprecise documentation. This makes their maintenancemore difficult, more time consuming, and costlier. In order toaddress these issues, many organizations have been migrating theirlegacy systems to emerging technologies. In this paper, we describea computer-supported approach aimed at supporting the migration ofprocedural software systems to the object-oriented (OO) technology.Our approach is based on the automatic formation of concepts, anduses information extracted directly from code to identify objects.The approach tends, thus, to minimize the need for domain applicationexperts.