A method for business logic extraction from legacy COBOL code of industrial systems

A.A. Guba, A.V. Kolchin, S.V. Potiyenko

Abstract


The purpose of this work is to develop a software tool for analysis automation and simplifying of understanding of software systems behavior. Methods for translation, abstraction, debugging and test generation for COBOL are proposed. We developed a software system, which implements the methods.

Problems in programming 2016; 2-3: 17-25


Keywords


translation; Cobol; modeling; abstraction; test generation; debugging

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15407/pp2016.02-03.017

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