On Experience in Program System Reengineering

M.A. Bulyonkov , e-mail: mike@iis.nsk.su , P. G.Emelyanov

Program system reengineering is an important domain of informatics using wide specter of scientific methods and technologies and attracting strong attention of researchers, engineers, and the business society. In particular, a reengineering project of a program system handling the problem of interest can establish a new knowledge about its characteristics. In the article we give a general description of reengineering and domains of its applications as well as we discuss issues appearing for automation of this activity.

Keywords: software reengineering, legacy applications, reengineering automation, business logic extraction, knowledge mining

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