Deck 36: Maintenance and Reengineering

Question 1

What is forward engineering?

Answer 1

Forward engineering recovers design information from existing source code and uses this information to reconstitute the system and improve its quality and/or performance.

Question 2

How does business process reengineering (BPR)differ from software reengineering?

Answer 2

BPR defines business goals,identifies and evaluates existing business processes,and creates revised business processes that better meet current goals.The software reengineering process activities have as their intent the creation of new versions of existing programs that exhibit higher quality and higher maintainability.

Question 3

What activities are associated with reverse engineering?

Answer 3

Understanding process (source code analysis),understanding data internal structures and databases,reconstructing user models from user interface structure and behavior

Question 4

What are the benefits of software restructuring?