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Recreating Design Artefacts of Information Systems for Systems Evolution and Maintenance

Recreating Design Artefacts of Information Systems for Systems Evolution and Maintenance
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Author(s): Khaled Md. Khan (University of Western Sydney, Australia)and Yi-Chen Lan (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
Copyright: 2003
Pages: 3
Source title: Information Technology & Organizations: Trends, Issues, Challenges & Solutions
Source Editor(s): Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. (Information Resources Management Association, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-066-0.ch227
ISBN13: 9781616921248
EISBN13: 9781466665330

Abstract

The paper presents an overview of the process of understanding existing information systems in order to aid system evolution and maintenance. The outcome of the paper is largely based on the experiences gather from a system maintenance project. The paper argues that the process of understanding existing systems involves four major design abstraction levels. To achieve the highest level of design abstraction in the hierarchy, maintainer programmers have to follow a defined process to gain a complete understanding of the system structure and semantics.

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