Towards building a smarter domain knowledge recovery assistant
Yang Li, Hongji Yang, William C. Chu · 2002
Legacy systems need to be "salvaged" to prolong their life circle. One way for such a salvation is to recover and maintain domain knowledge embedded in legacy code. It is the authors' observation that existing methods or tools for domain knowledge recovery from source code do not provide maintainers with sufficient assistance to: (1) reduce the size of analysable program sections, (2) identify program sections having intensive domain knowledge, and (3) maintain the belief of a network of domain knowledge extracted from source code which can accommodate change of belief coming from a user. The authors introduce techniques which can provide software maintainers with smart assistance for the above-mentioned three issues.