Gardening Your Architecture, Part 2: Reengineering and Rewriting

Gardening Your Architecture, Part 2: Reengineering and Rewriting

Reengineering and rewriting are two common approaches for improving system quality-in addition to refactoring, which the last installment of this column explored. Reengineering is a systematic approach to evolve existing software to exhibit new behavior, features, and operational quality. Refactorin...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE software 2011-09, Vol.28 (5), p.21-23
1. Verfasser: Buschmann, F.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Applied sciences
Architects
Architecture
Business process re-engineering
Cleaning
Computer architecture
Computer programs
Computer science
control theory
systems
Concrete
Costs
developmental quality
Exact sciences and technology
functional quality
Gardening
Heart surgery
operational quality
Radicals
Reengineering
refactoring
rewriting
Slates
Software
Software architecture
Software engineering
Software measurement
Success
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Zusammenfassung:Reengineering and rewriting are two common approaches for improving system quality-in addition to refactoring, which the last installment of this column explored. Reengineering is a systematic approach to evolve existing software to exhibit new behavior, features, and operational quality. Refactoring and reengineering aren't the same, and they're also different from rewriting-the most radical change-which involves wiping the slate clean and starting over.
ISSN:0740-7459
1937-4194
DOI:10.1109/MS.2011.97