Reengineering of a Ticket's Sales System: Techniques and Best Practices for object-oriented software reengineering

Revision with unchanged content. As software systems grow older, their maintenance costs increase and reengineering often becomes necessary to keep a system valuable and to enable its further evolution. Object-oriented software systems are relatively young, yet the need to reengineer them arises. The Object-oriented programming paradigm implies a different approach to reengineering as for programs written in a procedural language. This book presents a metho­dology on how to tackle object-oriented software reengineering in practice. Adequate techniques and tools are introduced within an orga­ni­zational framework and applied to real world ticket sales client written in Java. Based on the results of the system analysis, options on how to proceed are discussed and a plan for the restructuring of the system is presented. This book is of use for IT professionals who need a overview and hands on knowledge about object-oriented sofware reengineering. It is also a valuable case study for eduactional purposes since it shows how various theoretical reengineering aspects are applied in practice.