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Renovation of business-critical software is becoming increasingly important. We identify fundamental notions and techniques to aid in system renovation and sketch some basic techniques: generic language technology to build analysis tools, a knowledge retrieval system to aid in program understanding, and a coordination architecture that is useful to restructure monolithic systems thus enabling their renovation. We argue that these techniques are not only essential for the renovation of old software but that they can also play an important role during the development and maintenance of new software systems.
The authors were all in part sponsored by bank ABN AMRO, software house DP-Finance, and the Dutch Ministry of Economical Affairs via the Senter Project #ITU95017 “SOS Resolver”. Chris Verhoef was also supported by the Netherlands Computer Science Research Foundation (SION) with financial support from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), project Interactive tools for program understanding, 612-33-002.
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van den Brand, M., Klint, P., Verhoef, C. (1996). Core technologies for system renovation. In: Jeffery, K.G., Král, J., Bartošek, M. (eds) SOFSEM'96: Theory and Practice of Informatics. SOFSEM 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1175. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0037407
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