Reverse Engineering and Reusing COBOL Programs: A Program Transformation Approach

Since the 1980s, software maintenance started to attract attention. Some progress has been made in using formal methods on software maintenance, especially on reverse engineering. This paper attempts to summarise some major advances in this area over the last one and a half decades. Firstly, we introduce program transformation techniques for software development and review the techniques used for software maintenance. We then describe a method for reverse engineering and reusing COBOL programs using program transformations. Finally, we suggest a future investigation direction for this work.

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Publication date: September 1997

Publication date (Print): September 1997

Pages: 1-20

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[0001]Department of Computer Science

De Montfort University

England

[0002]Department of Computer Science

The Queen's University of Belfast

Northern Ireland

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/FM1997.14

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 1st Irish Workshop on Formal Methods

Conference acronym: FM

Conference number: 1

Conference location: Dublin

Conference date: 3-4 July 1997

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Irish Workshop on Formal Methods

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1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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Reverse Engineering and Reusing COBOL Programs: A Program Transformation Approach

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