Downsizing large application programs
Harry Marsh Sneed, E. Nyary · Journal of Software Maintenance Research and Practice · 1994
Abstract There is a great demand in industry to migrate from the mainframe to distributed client/server type systems. The following paper proposes three methods of splitting up oversized host application programs with the goal of offloading them on to workstation computers. The three approaches are by procedural connection, functional decomposition, and abstract data typing. The author describes his experience in applying each of the methods and explains what other measures are necessary to downsize a program.