Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns is a book by Serge Demeyer, St�phane Ducasse and Oscar Nierstrasz, published by Morgan Kaufmann and DPunkt. As the title says, it covers various techniques (documented as patterns) that can be applied to reengineer object-oriented systems.
The rapid growth of object-oriented development over the past twenty years has given rise to many object-oriented systems that are large, complex and hard to maintain. Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns addresses the problem of understanding and reengineering such object-oriented legacy systems. This book collects and distills successful techniques in planning a reengineering project, reverse-engineering, problem detection, migration strategies and software redesign. The material in this book is presented as a set of "reengineering patterns" � recurring solutions that experts apply while reengineering and maintaining object-oriented systems. The principles and techniques described in this book have been observed and validated in a number of industrial projects, and reflect best practice in object-oriented reengineering.
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SergeDemeyer - 21 Aug 2003