Towards Re-engineering Legacy Systems for Assured Dynamic Adaptation

  • Authors:
  • Ji Zhang;Betty H. C. Cheng

  • Affiliations:
  • Michigan State University, USA;Michigan State University, USA

  • Venue:
  • MISE '07 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Modeling in Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Increasingly, software must adapt its behavior in response to changes in the supporting computing, communication infrastructure, and in the surrounding physical environment. Since most existing software was not designed to adapt, research on techniques to make legacy software dynamically adaptive has gained increasing interest. Assurance is crucial for adaptive software to fulfill its intended purpose. Correctness is even more critical if it is to be applied in high assurance systems. This paper proposes a model-driven approach to introduce dynamic adaptation to non-adaptive legacy systems while maintaining assurance properties. An aspect-oriented technique is applied to achieve separation of concerns in the implementation.