UNDERSTANDING THE DYNAMICS OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Abdelwahab Hamou‐Lhadj · 2007
Information systems are in the process of undergoing significant transformations triggered by the Internet technology. However, most existing systems suffer from poor to non-existent documentation, which makes the maintenance process a daunting task even for a skilled software engineer. As a result, software engineers are often faced with the inevitable problem of understanding different aspects of the system before undertaking a simple maintenance task. This paper describes ongoing research in the area of program comprehension that aims at investigating efficient techniques for the understanding of the dynamics of software systems with a particular emphasis on information systems. The proposed approach is based on the analysis of system’s execution traces. The long-term objective is to create effective tool support for software engineers working on maintenance tasks.