Reuse or Rewrite: Combining Textual, Static, and Dynamic Analyses to Assess the Cost of Keeping a System Up-to-date. Antoniol, G., Hayes, J. H., Gu�h�neuc, Y., & Di Penta, M. In Mei, H. & Wong, K., editors, Proceedings of the 24<sup>th</sup> International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), pages 147–156, September–October, 2008. IEEE CS Press.  10 pages.![pdf Reuse or Rewrite: Combining Textual, Static, and Dynamic Analyses to Assess the Cost of Keeping a System Up-to-date [pdf]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/pdf.svg) Paper  abstract   bibtex
Paper  abstract   bibtex   Undocumented software systems are a common challenge for developers performing maintenance and/or reuse. The challenge is two-fold: (1) when no comments or documentation exist, it is difficult for developers to understand how a system works; (2) when no requirements exist, it is difficult to know what the system actually does. We present a method, named ReORe (Reuse or Rewrite) that assists developers in recovering requirements for a competitor system and in deciding if they should reuse parts of their existing system or rewrite it from scratch. Our method requires source code and executable for the system and assumes that requirements are preliminarily recovered. We apply ReORe to Lynx, a Web browser written in C. We provide evidence of ReORe accuracy: 56\NOfor validation based on textual and static analysis and 94\NOfor the final validation using dynamic analysis.
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   AUTHOR       = {Giuliano Antoniol and Jane Huffman Hayes and 
      Yann-Ga�l Gu�h�neuc and Di Penta, Massimiliano},
   BOOKTITLE    = {Proceedings of the 24<sup>th</sup> International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM)},
   TITLE        = {Reuse or Rewrite: Combining Textual, Static, and Dynamic 
      Analyses to Assess the Cost of Keeping a System Up-to-date},
   YEAR         = {2008},
   OPTADDRESS   = {},
   OPTCROSSREF  = {},
   EDITOR       = {Hong Mei and Kenny Wong},
   MONTH        = {September--October},
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   PUBLISHER    = {IEEE CS Press},
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   PDF          = {http://www.ptidej.net/publications/documents/ICSM08a.ppt.pdf},
   ABSTRACT     = {Undocumented software systems are a common challenge for 
      developers performing maintenance and/or reuse. The challenge is 
      two-fold: (1) when no comments or documentation exist, it is 
      difficult for developers to understand how a system works; (2) when 
      no requirements exist, it is difficult to know what the system 
      actually does. We present a method, named ReORe (Reuse or Rewrite) 
      that assists developers in recovering requirements for a competitor 
      system and in deciding if they should reuse parts of their existing 
      system or rewrite it from scratch. Our method requires source code 
      and executable for the system and assumes that requirements are 
      preliminarily recovered. We apply ReORe to Lynx, a Web browser 
      written in C. We provide evidence of ReORe accuracy: 56\NOfor 
      validation based on textual and static analysis and 94\NOfor the 
      final validation using dynamic analysis.}
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