Towards lightweight checks for mass maintenance transformations

  • Authors:
  • Niels Veerman

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Science of Computer Programming
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We propose a lightweight, practical approach to check mass maintenance transformations. We present checks for both transformation tools and transformed source code, and illustrate them using examples of real-world transformations. Our approach is not a fully fledged, formal one but provides circumstantial evidence for transformation correctness, and has been applied to the mass maintenance of industrial Cobol systems.