Understanding schema evolution as a basis for database reengineering

Maxime Gobert; Jérôme Maes; Anthony Cleve; Jens Weber

doi:10.1109/ICSM.2013.75

Understanding schema evolution as a basis for database reengineering

Maxime Gobert, Jérôme Maes, Anthony Cleve, Jens Weber

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Abstract

Software repositories can provide valuable information for facilitating software reengineering efforts. In recent years, many researchers have started to follow a holistic approach, considering diverse software artifacts and the links existing between them. However, when analyzing data-intensive systems, comparatively little attention has been devoted to the analysis of an important system artifact: the database. Even fewer approaches attempt to uncover facts about the evolution history of database schemas. We have developed a tool-supported method for analyzing and visualizing database schema history. This paper reports early results of applying and validating this method. We discuss our experiences to date and point out several novel research perspectives in this domain.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM
Publisher	IEEE Computer society
Pages	472-475
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	1063-6773
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2013.75
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2013
Event	29th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM 2013 - Eindhoven, Netherlands Duration: 22 Sep 2013 → 28 Sep 2013

Conference

Conference	29th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM 2013
Country	Netherlands
City	Eindhoven
Period	22/09/13 → 28/09/13

Keywords

Data reengineering
Mining software repositories
Schema evolution

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10.1109/ICSM.2013.75

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Gobert, M., Maes, J., Cleve, A., & Weber, J. (2013). Understanding schema evolution as a basis for database reengineering. In IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM (pp. 472-475). [6676935] IEEE Computer society. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2013.75

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