WICSA3 Workshop
Mining and Reengineering of Legacy Assets for use in a New System or Product Line
Theme
Few product line efforts start from “green fields” because organizations have a substantial legacy base of existing software assets. But a lot of work must be done before an organization can reuse these legacy assets in a new system or product line. The theme of this workshop is to examine what needs to be done.The workshop’s goal is to explore the current state of the practice in methods, tools and technology that can assist in carrying out the required work.
The workshop will examine the following aspects of the problem of reusing legacy components:
- Understanding the legacy base through architecture reconstruction
- Decision making to identify what components can be reused
- Refactoring of the legacy software to produce reusable components
- Tool support for these activities
We would like to invite people who are working on improvements to the state of the art of the methods, tools and technology in these areas to make presentations and to lead follow-up discussions. Please forward a short position paper to the organizers on one or more of the topics of interest to this workshop.
All attendees of WICSA3 are welcome to participate in the workshop.
Workshop Format
The workshop will be a full-day workshop with at least 6 presentation sessions. Each presentation will outline work in a particular area as a starting point for discussion. Tentative presentation topics include- OAR (Options Analysis for Reengineering),
- MAP (Mining Architectures for Product Line Evaluation),
- Architecture Reconstruction,
- Refactoring Techniques and Tool support,
- Other topics will be included based upon the position papers submitted.
Outputs
A workshop report, containing the position papers and summary of the presentations and discussions, will be developed.Workshop Organizers
Liam O'BrienSoftware Engineering Institute
lob@sei.cmu.edu
Dennis Smith
Software Engineering Institute
dbs@sei.cmu.edu