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Software migration methods enable to reuse legacy systems by transferring them into new environments. Thereby, the method used needs to fit to the project’s situation by considering conceptual differences between the source and target environment and automating parts of the migration whenever suitable. Using an inappropriate migration method may lead to a decreased software quality or increased effort. Various method engineering approaches have been proposed to support the development of situation-specific migration methods. However, most do not provide a sufficient degree of flexibility when developing a method or fall short in guiding the endeavor. To address this problem, we introduce a situational method engineering framework to guide the development of model-driven migration methods by assembling predefined buildings blocks. The development is centered around the identification of concepts within a legacy system and the selection of suitable migration strategies. We evaluate the framework by an industrial project in which we migrated a legacy system from the domain of real estates to a new environment.
This work is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft under grants EB 119/11-1 and EN 184/6-1.
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Grieger, M., Fazal-Baqaie, M., Engels, G., Klenke, M. (2016). Concept-Based Engineering of Situation-Specific Migration Methods. In: Kapitsaki, G., Santana de Almeida, E. (eds) Software Reuse: Bridging with Social-Awareness. ICSR 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9679. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-35122-3_14
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