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13th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2006)
Reverse Engineering of System Interfaces A Report from the Field
Benevento, Italy
October 23-October 27
ISBN: 0-7695-2719-1
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Harry M. Sneed, Stephan H. Sneed, "Reverse Engineering of System Interfaces A Report from the Field," Reverse Engineering, Working Conference on, pp. 125-133, 13th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2006), 2006.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/WCRE.2006.50,
author = {Harry M. Sneed and Stephan H. Sneed},
title = {Reverse Engineering of System Interfaces A Report from the Field},
journal ={Reverse Engineering, Working Conference on},
volume = {0},
year = {2006},
issn = {1095-1350},
pages = {125-133},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/WCRE.2006.50},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - CONF
JO - Reverse Engineering, Working Conference on
TI - Reverse Engineering of System Interfaces A Report from the Field
SN - 1095-1350
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EP133
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PY - 2006
KW - Reverse Engineering
KW - Interface comprehension
KW - data structures in C/C++
KW - COBOL and PL/I
KW - XML
KW - XMI
KW - WSDL.
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Harry M. Sneed, ANECON GmbH, Germany
Stephan H. Sneed, ANECON GmbH, Germany
This paper is a report on three real industrial projects conducted to redocument the system interfaces of existing application systems a stock trading system, a health insurance system and a bank credit system. The first reverse engineering project was for the purpose of accessing the backend C server software from Web clients. The second project was for the purpose of testing the interfaces between COBOL subsystems running parallel in two interconnected environments a Unix computer and a Bull mainframe. The third project was to extract procedures from existing PL/I programs for reuse as web services. The lessons learned from the three projects are assessed to draw conclusions on how to improve the development process.
Index Terms:
Reverse Engineering, Interface comprehension, data structures in C/C++, COBOL and PL/I, XML, XMI, WSDL.
Citation:
Harry M. Sneed, Stephan H. Sneed, "Reverse Engineering of System Interfaces A Report from the Field," wcre, pp.125-133, 13th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2006), 2006
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