Getting Objects Methods and Interactions by Extracting Business Rules from Legacy Systems

Omar El Beggar, Brahim Bousetta, Taoufiq Gadi
2014 Journal of Systems Integration  
The maintenance of legacy systems becomes over the years extremely complex and highly expensive due to the incessant changes of company activities and policies. In this case, a new or an improved system must replace the previous one. However, replacing those systems completely from scratch is also very expensive and it represents a huge risk. The optimal scenario is evolving those systems by profiting from the valuable knowledge embedded in them. This paper aims to present an approach for
more » ... dge acquisition from existing legacy systems by extracting business rules from source code. In fact, the business rules are extracted and assigned next to the domain entities in order to generate objects methods and interactions in an object-oriented platform. Furthermore, the rules translation in natural language is given. The aim is advancing a solution for re-engineering legacy systems, minimize the cost of their modernization and keep very small the gap between the company business and the renovated systems.
doi:10.20470/jsi.v5i3.204 fatcat:pg4xbbxpyrcqjow2jcz4fzzrke