The Florida SunFlash
SunFLASH Vol 65 #29 May 1994
65.29 Tools, Services for S/W Maintenance, Reverse and Re-Engineering
From: Charles Stanley Smith
After 35 man years of sponsored research as part of the Esprit
REDO and RECYCLE projects, the Information Systems Engineering
Group at the University of Limerick have formed a company
called Piercom Ltd to commercialise the results of their work.
Piercom are launching a set of Services and Tools for Software
Maintenance and System Reverse-Engineering and Re-engineering.
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Piercom launch a set of Services and Tools for Software Maintenance
and System Reverse and Re-Engineering.
The tools are intended to produce significant improvements in:-
The Quality of System Documentation
The efficiency of the Software Maintenace Process
The Quality of the Software being Maintained
The Speed at which large scale Re-engineering and Migration projects
can be achieved
The Controlability and Visibility of Maintenance Tasks.
The Tool-set provides:-
Inventory Analyses
Quality Measurements
Re-Documenation through many levels of automatically generated
diagrams
Structure Charts a la Jackson or Yourdon and Constantine or others.
Run charts - Data Flow Diagrams from JCL Scripts
Textual and Form based documentation - such as which files used where
and how used. Which program, procedure, section or paragraph used
where.
Consistency of code presentation improvements.
System level naming consistency with renaming where advised.
Control Flow Restructuring.
Removal of unreachable Code.
Removal of unused Variables.
Explicit naming of `Literals'.
Explicit intialisation of Variables.
Re-modularisation.
Dialect conversion - ie COBOL I to COBOL II
Screen/Form Conversion - ie IMS to Microfocus Screen Section.
Support for downsizing
The Toolset currently supports:
COBOL I & II (74 & 85) IBM, ICL, Microfocus and VAX
FORTRAN-77
DOS VSE and OS/370 JCL
FMS FLG Form Descriptions
CICS Screen MAps
IMS FMT Descriptions
The toolset runs on Sun with Openwindows or X/Motif.
Further details available from :
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Charles Stanley-Smith |
(Director) Piercom Ltd | _/_/_/
c/o University of Limerick | _/ _/
Limerick, Ireland. | _/_/_/ __ __ __ __
Voice : +353-61-333644 | _/ | | | | | | |\/|
Fax : +353-61-330876 | _/ | |-- |-- | | | | |
Email : smithc@ul.ie | _/ | |__ | \ |__ |__| | |
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