Section: Overall Objectives

Reengineering and remodularization

While applications must evolve to meet new requirements, few approaches analyze the implications of their original structure (modules, packages, classes) and their transformation to support their evolution. Our research will focus on the remodularization of object-oriented applications. Automated approaches including clustering algorithms are not satisfactory because they often ignore user inputs. Our vision is that we need better approaches to support the transformation of existing software. The reengineering challenge tackled by RMoD is formulated as follows:

How to help remodularize existing software applications?

We are going to develop analyses and algorithms to remodularize object-oriented applications. This is why in a first period, we are going to study and build tools to support the understanding of applications at the level of packages and modules. This will allow us to understand the results of the analyses that we will build in a second period.