RECAST: Evolution of Object-Oriented Applications
Sté́phane Ducasse · 2001
This research project is about reengineering object-oriented applications. Reengineering such applications inherits complex problems related to software maintenance, i.e., program understanding, program analysis, and program transformation and adds to them (1) the complexity introduced by late binding, dynamic typing, and incremental definition specific to object-oriented programming, and (2) the complexity related to the new way of software development (multiple parallel versions, frameworks, and products lines). Based on our research experience, this research project is structured in three non-orthogonal directions: (a) reengineering, (b) analysis of versions and (c) migration of object-oriented applications towards components.