Implications of Distributed Object Technology for Reengineering
Distributed object technology is profoundly changing the ways in which software systems evolve over time. To a large extent, the focus of reengineering has been to understand legacy systems and to extract their essential functionality so that they can be rewritten as more robust and more maintainable systems over the long term. However, object technology, wrapping strategies, and the Web may be changing the focus and economics of reengineering. The question posed by this paper is the extent to which reengineering strategies ought to continue to use program understanding technology. The cost/benefit ratio of certain forms of program understanding appears to be staying roughly the same over time, while the cost/benefit ratio of wrapping legacy systems or their subsystems is dropping rapidly. As a result, new reengineering strategies that place less emphasis on deep program understanding, and more emphasis on distributed object technologies, should now be considered.
Technical Report
CMU/SEI-97-TR-005
June 1997
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SEI:
Weiderman, Nelson; Northrop, Linda; Smith, Dennis; Tilley, Scott; & Wallnau, Kurt. Implications of Distributed Object Technology for Reengineering (CMU/SEI-97-TR-005). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1997. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/97tr005.cfm
IEEE:
N. Weiderman, L. Northrop, D. Smith, S. Tilley, and K. Wallnau, "Implications of Distributed Object Technology for Reengineering," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Technical Report CMU/SEI-97-TR-005, 1997. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/97tr005.cfm
APA:
Weiderman, N., Northrop, L., Smith, D., Tilley, S., & Wallnau, K. (1997) . Implications of Distributed Object Technology for Reengineering (CMU/SEI-97-TR-005). Retrieved May 24, 2012, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/97tr005.cfm
CHI:
Weiderman, Nelson, Linda Northrop, Dennis Smith, Scott Tilley, and Kurt Wallnau. Implications of Distributed Object Technology for Reengineering (CMU/SEI-97-TR-005). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Insitute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1997. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/97tr005.cfm
MLA:
Weiderman, N., Northrop, L., Smith, D., Tilley, S., & Wallnau, K. 1997. Implications of Distributed Object Technology for Reengineering (Technical Report CMU/SEI-97-TR-005). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Insitute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/97tr005.cfm
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