Software maintenance by program transformation in a wide spectrum language

This thesis addresses the software maintenance problem of extracting high-level designs from code. The investigated solution is to use a mathematically-based formal program transformation system. The resulting tool, the Maintainer's Assistant, is based on Ward's [177] WSL (wide spectrum la...

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Main Author: Bull, Tim
Published: Durham University 1994
Subjects:
005
Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359584