Customizable feature based design pattern recognition integrating multiple techniques [Elektronische Ressource] / Ghulam Rasool. Gutachter: Kai-Uwe Sattler ; Patrick Mäder. Betreuer: Ilka Philippow

A dissertation submitted to the FAKULTÄT FÜR INFORMATIK UND AUTOMATISIERUNG TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT ILMENAU Customizable Feature based Design Pattern Recognition Integrating Multiple Techniques for the degree of DOKTOR-INGENIEUR (DR.-ING.) presented by Ghulam Rasool (MSCS) born April 8, 1975 in Pakpattan, Pakistan Gutachter: 1. Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Ilka Philippow 2. Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Kai-Uwe Sattler 3. Dr.-Ing. Patrick Mäder October 2010 urn:nbn:de:gbv:ilm1-2011000079 Abstract Recovering design information from legacy applications is a complex, expensive, quiet challenging, and time consuming task due to ever increasing complexity of software and advent of modern technology. The growing demand for maintenance of legacy systems, which can cope with the latest technologies and new business requirements, the reuse of artifacts from the existing legacy applications for new developments become very important and vital for software industry. Due to constant evolution in architecture of legacy systems, they often have incomplete, inconsistent and obsolete documents which do not provide enough information about the structure of these systems. Mostly, source code is the only reliable source of information for recovering artifacts from legacy systems.