Designing a Software Maintenance System Using a Reverse Engineering Approach

The aim of the software maintenance is to maintain the software system in accordance with advancement in software and hardware technology. There are four activities to software maintenance, namely corrective maintenance, adaptive maintenance, perfective maintenance, and preventive maintenance. Th...

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Main Author: Al-Fawareh, Hamed Jasem
Format: Thesis
Language:English
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Published: 1998
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Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/9448/1/FSAS_1998_35_A.pdf
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spelling my-upm-ir.94482024-03-05T07:00:13Z Designing a Software Maintenance System Using a Reverse Engineering Approach 1998-02 Al-Fawareh, Hamed Jasem The aim of the software maintenance is to maintain the software system in accordance with advancement in software and hardware technology. There are four activities to software maintenance, namely corrective maintenance, adaptive maintenance, perfective maintenance, and preventive maintenance. Three approaches are used in software maintenance, that is restructure, reverse engineering, and reenginering. Reverse engineering is a process that is currently being used in software maintenance to extract items of information on software products. This research aims to produce a new reverse engineering logic-form tool, to help maintainers by giving them a complete document about the software system. Currently, many tools are used in reverse engineering, but not all can satisfy the problems faced by the users. The thesis describes the design and implementation of an automatic aid system that uses a logic-form reverse engineering approach, with a new data structure called tree module structure. This tool contains four modules, namely, lexical analyzer module, syntax analyzer module, handling module, and interface or query module. Computer software - Development Reverse engineering Software maintenance 1998-02 Thesis http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/9448/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/9448/1/FSAS_1998_35_A.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Putra Malaysia Computer software - Development Reverse engineering Software maintenance Faculty of Environmental Studies Abd. Ghani, Abdul Azim English
institution Universiti Putra Malaysia
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language English
English
advisor Abd. Ghani, Abdul Azim
topic Computer software - Development
Reverse engineering
Software maintenance
spellingShingle Computer software - Development
Reverse engineering
Software maintenance
Al-Fawareh, Hamed Jasem
Designing a Software Maintenance System Using a Reverse Engineering Approach
description The aim of the software maintenance is to maintain the software system in accordance with advancement in software and hardware technology. There are four activities to software maintenance, namely corrective maintenance, adaptive maintenance, perfective maintenance, and preventive maintenance. Three approaches are used in software maintenance, that is restructure, reverse engineering, and reenginering. Reverse engineering is a process that is currently being used in software maintenance to extract items of information on software products. This research aims to produce a new reverse engineering logic-form tool, to help maintainers by giving them a complete document about the software system. Currently, many tools are used in reverse engineering, but not all can satisfy the problems faced by the users. The thesis describes the design and implementation of an automatic aid system that uses a logic-form reverse engineering approach, with a new data structure called tree module structure. This tool contains four modules, namely, lexical analyzer module, syntax analyzer module, handling module, and interface or query module.
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qualification_level Master's degree
author Al-Fawareh, Hamed Jasem
author_facet Al-Fawareh, Hamed Jasem
author_sort Al-Fawareh, Hamed Jasem
title Designing a Software Maintenance System Using a Reverse Engineering Approach
title_short Designing a Software Maintenance System Using a Reverse Engineering Approach
title_full Designing a Software Maintenance System Using a Reverse Engineering Approach
title_fullStr Designing a Software Maintenance System Using a Reverse Engineering Approach
title_full_unstemmed Designing a Software Maintenance System Using a Reverse Engineering Approach
title_sort designing a software maintenance system using a reverse engineering approach
granting_institution Universiti Putra Malaysia
granting_department Faculty of Environmental Studies
publishDate 1998
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/9448/1/FSAS_1998_35_A.pdf
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