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Subject: PEM: Arie van Deursen | Rapid System Understanding | 18.06.98

 
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   Hi Environmentalists,

   This  week's  talk  will  also be given next week at the International
   Workshop  on Program Comprehension. Next week's version will obviously
   be better, due to your useful remarks and comments.

   Here is the abstract:

   This announcement can be found at <http://www.cwi.nl/~pem>

                         Rapid System Understanding

   Date:    18.06.98
   Time:    10:00
   Venue:   M280 CWI
   Speaker: Arie van Deursen
   Title:   Rapid System Understanding

   [joint work with Tobias Kuipers]

   Rapid  system  understanding  is required in the planning, feasibility
   assessment and cost estimating phases of a system renovation project.

   In  the paper, we apply a number of analyses on two large legacy COBOL
   systems  from  the  banking field. We describe the analyses performed,
   and discuss possible interpretations of these analyses.

   Lessons learned include:
    1. The  open  architecture  adopted  is  satisfactory,  and  can take
       advantage of a wide range of understanding tools available; and
    2. To handle inter-system variability effectively, the flexibility of
       lexical analysis is required.

   Although most of our experiments are setup to be generic, some of them
   are  specific  to  the  two  case  studies.  In  order  to  use  those
   experiments  on  different  systems, they would need to be adapted for
   those systems.
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