NDLI: Exploring the Limits of Domain Model Recovery

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Klint, P. Landman, D. Vinju, J.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Centrum Wiskunde & Inf., Amsterdam, Netherlands (Klint, P.; Landman, D.; Vinju, J.)
Abstract	We are interested in re-engineering families of legacy applications towards using Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs). Is it worth to invest in harvesting domain knowledge from the source code of legacy applications? Reverse engineering domain knowledge from source code is sometimes considered very hard or even impossible. Is it also difficult for "modern legacy systems"? In this paper we select two open-source applications and answer the following research questions: which parts of the domain are implemented by the application, and how much can we manually recover from the source code? To explore these questions, we compare manually recovered domain models to a reference model extracted from domain literature, and measured precision and recall. The recovered models are accurate: they cover a significant part of the reference model and they do not contain much junk. We conclude that domain knowledge is recoverable from "modern legacy" code and therefore domain model recovery can be a valuable component of a domain re-engineering process.
Starting Page	120
Ending Page	129
File Size	622370
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780769549811
ISSN	10636773
DOI	10.1109/ICSM.2013.23
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-09-22
Publisher Place	Netherlands
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Object oriented modeling Planning DSL Documentation Project management Analytical models Reverse engineering domain models reverse engineering
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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