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From: jrn0@GTE.COM (John Nicol)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: O-O (re) development!
Keywords: Object-Oriented Reverse-Engineering
Message-ID: <10027@bunny.GTE.COM>
Date: 12 Nov 90 19:51:09 GMT
Reply-To: jrn0@bunny.GTE.COM (John Nicol)
Organization: GTE Laboratories, Waltham, MA
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Contemporary software engineering research literature offers some
pretty compelling arguments in favour of the use of OBJECT-ORIENTED
DEVELOPMENT (c.f. Grady Booch's paper of the same title). However,
the arguments for OO-Development seem aimed mainly at those concerned
with the production of NEW designs & software. Is there much interest out
there in looking at the reverse engineering of large software systems in an
effort to give them some of the benefits that O-O systems stand to
gain from (e.g. better scope for s/w maintenance, evolution and reuse
through the application of encapsulation and information hiding techniques)?
In short I would be grateful for pointers to literature which address
this or related issues. (Note, I am not so much interested in the
process of how to make an existing system *look* object oriented to
its environment (cf the OO database community :-) but rather in how
to benefit from the properties of a system *(re)engineered* in an O-O way).

If this query generates sufficient response, I will be happy to post
a summary to the group in due course.

Thanks in advance...

	-- John

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