The story of re-engineering 350,000 lines of FORTRAN code
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Authors
Shing, M.
Luqi
Berzins, V.
Saluto, M.
Williams, J.
Guo, J.
Shultes, B.
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1999
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This paper describes a case study to determine whether computer-aided prototyping
techniques provide a cost-effective means for re-engineering legacy software The
case study consists of developing a high-level modular architecture for the existing
US Army Janus combat simulation system and validating the architecture via an
executable prototype using the Computer Aided Prototyping System CAPS a
research tool developed at the Naval Postgraduate School The case study showed
that prototyping can be a valuable aid in re-engineering of legacy systems par
ticularly in cases where radical changes to system conceptualization and software
structure are needed The CAPS system enabled us to do this with a minimal
amount of coding effort.
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Computer Science (CS)
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U.S. Army Research Office under grant number
35037-MA and in part by a grant from the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Analysis Command.
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M. Shing, Luqi, V. Berzins, M. Saluto, J. Williams, J. Guo, and B. Shultes; Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science; vol. 25 (1999), 14 pages
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.