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Abstract

The goal of this project is to extend and develop 'new techniques in software analysis and software service development' and to prove their practical applicability in a large distributed system in a critical field. To achieve these goals, the project will formulate methods and develop techniques for detecting software decay.Techniques from architecture reconstruction, refactoring, service engineering and testing will be combined in a 'software service evolution toolbox' to provide a software architect with 'pro-active tools and processes' to ensure and improve software service quality during software development.

Keywords

Software evolution, software analysis, automated testing, distributed system, refactoring, legacy code

Goals

develop new techniques in software analysis and software service development
devise methods and techniques for pro-actively detecting software decay
develop techniques for automated test case generation for large distributed software systems based on analysis results

Initial posistion

Efficient and effective maintenance and evolution of legacy software is one of the great challenges in the software industry. The costs for maintenance and evolution of software are very high mainly because of its bad evolvability and the lack of existing methods and tools for software evolution.

Conclusion

The goal of this project is to extend and develop new techniques in software analysis and software service development and to prove their practical applicability in a large distributed system in a critical field. To achieve these goals, the project will formulate methods and develop techniques for detecting software decay. We will integrate expertise from areas of software evolution, distributed and mobile systems as well as service engineering to explore new ways for software service improvement on a large scale. Techniques from architecture reconstruction, refactoring, service engineering and testing will be combined in a software service evolution toolbox to provide a software architect with pro-active tools and processes to ensure and improve software service quality during software development.

Software Testing