the business
business systems
business process
business sub processes risk low
Refinement &
instantiation
Prototyping Process
identification
Process
Process
specification
evaluation
and design
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2.1 BPR Model
business reengineering iterative process
Æ no start, no end, evolutional
six elements:
business definition:
identify goals by using four drivers (cost reduction, time
reduction, quality improvement, personal development)
define at the business level or for a specific component
process identification:
identify critical processes for goals defined in the business
definition
rank them by importance, need for change…
process evaluation:
measure and identify tasks
note costs and time consumption
isolate quality/performance
Data Document
restructuring restructuring
Code
restructuring Reverse
engineering
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3.2 Stages of Reengineering
Inventory Analysis
inventory:attributes of application (size, age,
business criticality, etc.)
changes Æ revisit inventory regularly!
Document Restructuring
no re- documentation (relatively static, not much
longer used, no changes expected)
update documentation when changes were made
complete re- documentation, but kept at a minimum
(business critical systems)
Code Restructuring
most common type
analyze source code (restructuring tool), possible
automatically restructuring
review and test the result, update code
documentation!
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3.2 Stages of Reengineering
Data Restructuring
restructuringbegins mostly with reverse engineering
(define/review data models and structures)
restructure weak data architectures
data restructuring requires changes in architectural or
source- code changes
Forward Engineering
recover design information from existing software
AND alter/restore system Æ improve overall quality
re
- implement old function, add new ones, improve
overall performance and quality
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4. Reverse Engineering
possibly part of the reengineering process
can used to re-specify a system for re-
implementation
used to analyze software and get a better
comprehension about design and specification
creates a program database and generates
information from this
use of tools that understand the program is helpful
browsers
cross- reference
- generators
Program stucture
Automated diagrams
analysis
System
System to be Document Data stucture
information
re-engineered generation diagrams
store
Manual
annotation Traceability
matrices
Result:
revised GUI may not mirror the old interface
often contains new interaction metaphors