Recovery of object-oriented design from existing data-intensive business programs

Abstract

Extracting object-oriented designs from non-object-oriented data-intensive business programs is an important issue in software re-engineering and maintenance. In this paper, an augmented object model for specifying data-intensive business programs is proposed. Consequently, a methodology for the recovery of a specification using the proposed model from an existing data-intensive business program is proposed. The specification recovered represents an object-oriented design of the program. The design is expressed in terms of real-world application objects and operations and can be reused in similar applications. © 1995.