Many information systems are reengineered and redeveloped in practice, since they are legacy software. Typically, no requirements and design specifications exist and, therefore, also no traceability information. While especially the long-term utility of such information is well known, an important question in reengineering is whether installing it can have immediate benefits in the course of th...

Legacy software must often be reengineered, a process that involves both reverse and forward engineering. No doubt, there is a lack of resource requirements, design, or design rationale documentation for legacy software. This lack of resource requirement means an unavailability of traces as well, making reengineering difficult and expensive. In this paper we arise the reengineering task and the...

One of the most promising ways to make the population of a repository of reusable assets cost eeective and to obtain useful results in the short time is by extracting and reengineering them from existing software. A reuse reengineering process consists of the set of activities for identifying software components implementing abstractions, reengineering them according to a predeened template, as...

In Software Reengineering, one of the central artifacts is the source code of the legacy system in question. In fact, in most cases it is the only definitive artifact, because over the time the code has diverged from the original architecture and design documents. The first task of any reengineering project is to gather an understanding of the system’s architecture. Therefore, a common approach...

One important field of application for embedded real-time systems is in the telecommunications industry. In the first phase of the E-CARES reengineering project, we regarded the architecture modeling and the reverse engineering of telecommunication systems. Current work concerns the restructuring of such systems including their re-design and re-implementation. The aim is to provide concepts, la...

Theorists and practicients of quality sometimes "forget" basic object and subject of qualityBUYERS, dealing with different problems, as quality, causes and limits of quality improvement, combinations of standards etc.If we want to leave behind that situation, it is necessary to change behaviour of all business factors, or reengineering, according to processing model of quality system. If it res...

This article reviews the Business Process Reengineering (BPR) vision of radical business process change, focusing upon the use of information technology, to facilitate a shift away from linear work organization towards parallel processing and multidisciplinary team working. To approach such a change, by focusing on the technologies aspect to the detriment of a regard on managerial, technologica...