Whereas a design pattern describes and discusses a solution to a design problem, a reverse engineering pattern describes how to understand aspects of an object-oriented design and how to identify problems in that design. In the context of a project developing a methodology for reengineering objectoriented legacy systems into frameworks, we are working on a pattern language for reengineering. Th...

In the last few years, BT Italy has recorded an important business growth, which has led to a high complexity and a request to improve governance of fulfilment process. This paper presents the BT Italy case study of reengineering the Lead to Cash business processes to reduce time to market and improve customer’s satisfaction. The operational levers applied to realize project objectives are busi...

The reverse and reengineering research communities have a strong tradition of collecting, organizing, and unifying research results. Typical examples include an explicit taxonomy, dedicated web sites, an annotated bibliography, as well as efforts in exchange formats and tool evaluation. In this paper we describe and evaluate the use of a web authoring system to integrate such efforts. To that e...

About a year ago, the Social Security Administration (SSA) began the Disability Process Reengineering Program. This agency-wide project is one way SSA is seeking to improve its overall service to its customers while enriching and improving the worklives of its employees. The Disability Process Reengineering Team's objective is to fundamentally rethink and redesign SSA's disability programs unde...

Regarding the fiscal constraints and management difficulties of public hospitals, several countries have used public private partnership model to improve their health facilities. Public private partnership enables using public resources and private investment and expertise in a combined structure. Moheb hospital is the first Iranian hospital managed according to public private-partnership. The ...

Although the rate of significant quality issues in enduser programs is alarming, high-stake business decisions are often influenced by them. But due to a lack of awareness the end-user programs manage to stay below the radar of today’s managers and vital reengineering actions never get projected. This case study describes a project in which preceding business process reengineering triggered sof...

0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 2 / $ 1 7 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 2 I E E E during the reengineering process. We propose tracing “all around”—from existing code to the legacy system’s design to its requirements during reverse engineering, and from the modified requirements to the new design and the new code during development of the successor system. In effect, this means integrating traceability during reverse engi...