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Keywords
EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, USABILITY ENGINEERING, MIGRATING LEGACY SYSTEMS, REVERSE ENGINEERING, WIRELESS WEB AND SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURES, SOFTWARE QUALITY, SOFTWARE INSPECTION, SOFTWARE ARTEFACT TRACEABILITY MANAGEMENT

Methods and tools for migrating software systems towards web and service oriented architectures: experimental evaluation, usability, and technology transfer

Università degli Studi di Salerno
Abstract
Software systems undergo, during their lifetime, repeated maintenance and evolution activities to correct faults, or to meet the customers’ or market’s needs. Recently, a large part of the maintenance effort is due to the migration of traditional applications toward the Web, to make them accessible from wireless devices and to reengineer existing systems towards service-oriented architectures. The effort devoted to reverse engineering and migration activities in particular is a large part of the total life-cycle effort and it could be greatly reduced by adopting proper support tools.
The adoption of reverse engineering and migration tools in industry cannot be made without a systematic and quantitative evaluation, in particular concerning usability. If a tool is difficult to use, it will hardly be adopted, no matter how useful it may be. Although, this need has been widely discussed in the past and guidelines to define, plan and conduct empirical studies have been defined, very few studies have been conducted for the evaluation of migration methods and tools.

The objective of this project is to facilitate the selection and the adoption of reverse engineering and migration techniques and tools in industry. To pursue such an objective, the project aims at empirically evaluating reverse engineering and migration techniques and tools that can potentially fulfill industry needs. The empirical evaluation will be conducted in three different stages: a first >>>

Principal Investigator
Andrea De Lucia Università degli Studi di SALERNO
Research Objectives
Software systems undergo, during their lifetime, repeated maintenance and evolution activities to correct faults, or to meet the customers’ or market’s needs. During the recent years, in particular, a large part of the maintenance effort is due to the migration of traditional applications toward the Web, to make them accessible from wireless devices and to reengineer existing systems towards service-oriented architectures.
The effort devoted to maintenance and, in particular, to migration activities is a large part (over 70%, according to Zelkowitz, 1979, Erlikh, 2000) of the total life-cycle effort, and it could be greatly reduced by adopting proper tools to support, in particular:
- During the reverse engineering phase (Chikofsky and Cross, 90), aiming at analyzing the software system to create representations of the system in another form or at a higher level of abstraction. Reverse engineering is often necessary due to the lack of adequate documentation available.
- During the reengineering phase, aiming at transforming the existing system to achieve a given goal, the migration in our case.
In the last twenty years, a number of techniques and tools that support reverse engineering and migration have been developed. Nevertheless, the adoption of such tools and techniques in industry is still immature, mainly due to the lack of confidence industry has on the effectiveness of these techniques and tools. Before deciding to acquire a new >>>

Timescale
24 months
National and international background
In the last years, many advances have been made in the development of distributed and service oriented software systems that can be accessed through the Internet using portable devices and wireless communication. The wireless Internet is fast becoming a reality. Accessing the Internet and Internet protocol-based services through mobile wireless devices is already a reality for some and is just around the corner for most other people. The necessary infrastructure consisting of mobile terminals on one side and large bandwidth digital networks on the other is now available. Given the penetration of cellular phones (roughly one device per active person in an ever increasing number of countries), the potential impact of the wireless Internet on both business and consumer applications is huge. However, the availability of digital networks and terminals is not enough. The success of the wireless Internet has to be fuelled by the availability of wireless-specific data services and applications. Moreover, with the proliferation of Web Services as a promising solution to enterprise application integration, the Quality of Service (QoS) of software systems in distributed and wireless environments is becoming the greatest priority for service providers and their partners. The QoS requirement mainly refers to the quality, both functional as well as non-functional, aspect of a Web Service. This includes performance, reliability, integrity, accessibility, availability, interoperability, and >>>