Abstract
This paper analyzes the requirements that CASE tools should meet for effective database reverse engineering (DBRE), and proposes a general architecture for data-centered applications reverse engineering CASE environments. First, the paper describes a generic DBMS-independent DBRE methodology, then it analyzes the main characteristics of DBRE activities in order to collect a set of desirable requirements. Finally, it describes DB-MAIN, an operational CASE tool developed according to these requirements. The main features of this tool that are described in this paper are its unique generic specification model, its repository, its transformation toolkit, its user interface, the text processors, the assistants, the methodological control and its functional extensibility. Finally, the paper describes five real-world projects in which the methodology and the CASE tool were applied.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 9-45 |
| Number of pages | 37 |
| Journal | Journal of Automated Software Engineering |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 1996 |
Keywords
- CASE tools
- methodology
- reverse engineering
- database engineering
- program understanding