Reengineering procedural into object-oriented systems

This paper describes a reengineering tool for automaticaltv transforming a system composed of procedural programs into a functionally comparable object-oriented system. The transformation into the object-oriented form locates redundant, duplicated and similar data and processes and abstracts them into classes and methods. The transformation process and the abstract object-oriented model are described in mflcient delail to illustrate the reengineering technique and approach. Index Te,rms: transformational reengineering, translation, program slicing, object-oriented model