Managing Uncertainty in an Object Recovery Process

Object-oriented concepts facilitate the reusability as well as the maintainability of existing software. Due to the great amount of existing procedural software, object identification in procedural programs is an important approach. The object recovery process for this identification of objects within procedural programs presents several uncertainties and ambiguities, which have to be resolved by acquisition of additional knowledge from the application domain and a human expert. In this paper we show the basic concepts of the object recovery process and describe those uncertainties and ambiguities, as well as our way of managing them in order to identify objects in procedural programs. 1 Introduction Based on the increasing importance of reusability and maintainability in software development research in this field has uncovered many problems. Especially the reuse and maintenance of procedural software is a difficult problem (e.g. the components to be reused are difficult to define, m..