Design Motives extracting from Real COBOL Code
Design Motives extracting from Real COBOL Code

Summary/Abstract: The paper describes part of the work dedicated to create a system for extraction of the business logic from legacy software code. The main conception is to reverse the approach for specification of software well known as Design Patterns Approach and to use it to transform the code in design patterns. Important preliminary step of converting code to patterns is to identify essential patterns parts called design motives. The paper presents the architecture of a software system for extraction of design motives, than discuss used algorithms and some preliminary results. The target programming language of the system is COBOL but the concepts are applicable for different other programming languages, too.

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