Extracting object-oriented specification from procedurally oriented programs
Harry Marsh Sneed, E. Nyary · 2002
There is an increasing demand to migrate legacy programs from the mainframe to networked workstation computers. An important prerequisite to such migrations is an adequate and up-to-date documentation of the programs. Since the programs often have to be redesigned, the documentation must reflect the current program design in such a manner that this may be used as a blueprint for reimplementation. If the programs are to be redesigned as object-oriented programs, then the documentation should also be object-oriented. The paper presents an approach to automatically extracting object-oriented design documentation from existing COBOL mainframe programs.