Rule-Based Detection for Reverse Engineering User Interfaces

Authors:
Melody M. Moore
Affiliations:
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Venue:
WCRE '96 Proceedings of the 3rd Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE '96)
Year:
1996

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Abstract

Reengineering the user interface can be a critical part of the migration of any large information system. This paper details experiences with manually reverse engineering legacy applications to build a model of the user interface functionality, and to develop a technique for partially automating this process. The results show that a language-independent set of rules can be used to detect user interface components from legacy code, and also illustrate problems that require dynamic analysis to solve.