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Nierstrasz, Oscar

Overview
Works: 1,051 works in 1,684 publications in 5 languages and 13,985 library holdings
Roles: Editor, Creator
Classifications: qa76.64, 005.1
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Most widely held works by Oscar Nierstrasz
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7 editions published in in English and held by 341 libraries worldwide
"This year's Software Composition Workshop (SC 2005) was held on April 9, 2005, in Edinburgh, Scotland ..."
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7 editions published in in English and held by 321 libraries worldwide
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18 editions published between and 2008 in English and held by 278 libraries worldwide
The documentation is missing or obsolete, and the original developers have departed. Your team has limited understanding of the system, and unit tests are missing for many, if not all, of the components. When you fix a bug in one place, another bug pops up somewhere else in the system. Long rebuild times make any change difficult. All of these are signs of software that is close to the breaking point. Many systems can be upgraded or simply thrown away if they no longer serve their purpose. Legacy software, however, is crucial for operations and needs to be continually available and upgraded. How can you reduce the complexity of a legacy system sufficiently so that it can continue to be used and adapted at acceptable cost? Based on the authors' industrial experiences, this book is a guide on how to reverse engineer legacy systems to understand their problems, and then reengineer those systems to meet new demands. Patterns are used to clarify and explain the process of understanding large code bases, hence transforming them to meet new requirements. The key insight is that the right design and organization of your system is not something that can be evident from the initial requirements alone, but rather as a consequence of understanding how these requirements evolve. * Describes how to reverse engineer a monolithic system to understand how it really works and how to identify potential problems. * Includes reengineering patterns that tackle well-known reengineering techniques often encountered in object-oriented programming, such as introducing polymorphism, factoring out common behavior, detecting duplicated code, and understanding design. * Shows how to build a culture of continuous reengineering for achieving flexible and maintainable object-oriented systems.
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3 editions published in in English and held by 267 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 264 libraries worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 244 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 44 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 40 libraries worldwide
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in English and held by 36 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 34 libraries worldwide
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3 editions published in in English and held by 32 libraries worldwide
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3 editions published in in English and held by 31 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 31 libraries worldwide
 
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Alternative Names
Nierstrasz, O. 1957-
Nierstrasz, O. M. 1957-
Nierstrasz, O. (Oscar), 1957-
Nierstrasz, Oscar.
Nierstrasz, Oscar, 1957-
Nierstrasz, Oscar M. 1957-
Nierstrasz, Oscar Marius 1957-
Nierstrsz, O. (Oscar Marius), 1957-
Languages
English (1,677)
Dutch (4)
Undetermined (1)
German (1)
French (1)
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