A language-independent software renovation framework
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue: Software reverse engineering
A search-based approach for dynamically re-packaging downloadable applications
CASCON '07 Proceedings of the 2007 conference of the center for advanced studies on Collaborative research
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Software miniaturization is a form of software refactoringfocused on reducing an application to the barebone. Porting an application on a hand-held device is verylikely to require a preliminary step of software miniaturization,plus the development of device drivers dedicated to thenew environment and hardware architecture.This paper presents the process and the lessons learnedre-factoring a large Open Source application to get rid ofextra fat, to introduce shared libraries, to remove circulardependencies among libraries and, more generally, to minimizeinter-library dependencies.While the final goal was to fully exploit shared librariescapabilities, among the various possibilities we defined aprocess based on the existing knowledge about the application,and aimed to minimize the maintenance effort requiredby the miniaturization activities.