Towards automated modification of legacy assets
Annals of Software Engineering
Specifying and Automatically Generating a Specialization Tool for Fortran 90
Automated Software Engineering
Restructuring of COBOL/CICS legacy systems
Science of Computer Programming - Software maintenance and reengineering (CSMR 99)
Architectural modifications to deployed software
Science of Computer Programming
Toward an engineering discipline for grammarware
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Automated mass maintenance of a software portfolio
Science of Computer Programming - Special issue on source code analysis and manipulation (SCAM 2005)
AVal: an extensible attribute-oriented programming validator for Java: Research Articles
Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice - Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2006)
Generating Rewritable Abstract Syntax Trees
Software Language Engineering
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We discuss an approach that explores the use of scaffolding of source code to facilitate its renovation. We show that scaffolding is a useful paradigm for software renovation. We designed syntax and semantics for scaffolding, that enables all relevant applications of scaffolding.The automatic generation of extensions to a normal grammar, so that the resulting extension grammar can parse code with scaffolding, is discussed. We used the scaffolding paradigm itself to implement the generation process, thereby showing that our approach towards scaffolding is also useful in software development. Finally, we discuss real-world applications of scaffolding for software renovation, in both our own work and work from people in the reengineering IT industry.