NDLI: Structure elicitation in database reverse engineering

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Hainaut, J.-L. Henrard, J. Roland, D. Englebert, V. Hick, J.-M.
Copyright Year	1996
Description	Author affiliation: Inst. of Inf., Namur Univ., Belgium (Hainaut, J.-L.)
Abstract	Recovering the semantic description of file and database structures is an important aspect of business application reverse engineering. It includes a particularly delicate activity, namely data structure extraction, i.e. finding the exact data structures and integrity constraints of the database. This process is made more complex than generally expected due to the fact that these structures and constraints often are not explicitly defined, but are translated into implicit constructs, controlled and managed through procedural code or user interface protocol for instance. This paper describes the problem of implicit structure elicitation. It proposes an analysis of this phenomenon, and of the techniques and heuristics that can be used in the elicitation. It develops a set of efficient techniques and a for the elicitation of one of the most common implicit construct, namely the foreign key. The paper also explains how DB-MAIN, a general-purpose database reverse engineering CASE tool, can help analysts elicit implicit constructs, and specifically foreign keys.
Starting Page	131
Ending Page	140
File Size	1287882
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0818676744
DOI	10.1109/WCRE.1996.558891
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1996-11-11
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Reverse engineering Data structures Data mining Application software Computer aided software engineering Relational databases User interfaces Protocols Software engineering Programming profession
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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