The goal of a reengineering project is to restructure a legacy software system so that some of its quality attributes are improved. This restructuring could imply a change in the technological framework, such as a migration to an SOA framework. Whatever the technology, the reverse-engineering project should assess the feasibility of the restructuring. In fact, even if the target of the reverse-engineering is to remodel a system, it must also prototype the migration of some key component to the new architecture to check that it is possible.
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Upstream IT Reference Architecture and RUP Software Development
Today’s oil and gas industry needs a common IT reference architecture for use by upstream organizations, system integrators (Sis), solution providers and software development companies.
A single architectural approach will encourage simplification and unification in the upstream sector. It will also give Sis, solution providers and software development companies an established environment within which to design and build solutions, while allowing upstream operators to design architectures as a requirement for potential vendors.
The oil and gas IT community is now adopting Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) as a more flexible and responsive alternative to traditional hard connections between applications and source data.
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RUP artefacts in a context of phases
Software development process according to the Rational Unified Process is broken intro phases. Each phase has a cycles, each cycle working on a new generation of the product. The results in a cycle in general calls artifacts.
Summary description of the possible artifacts after each phase and evaluation criteria are represented.
Inception Phase
Typical artifacts that could be produced:
• A vision document: a general vision of the core project’s requirements, key features, and main constraints.
• A initial use-case model, 10% -20% complete.
• A business model, if necessary.