Reverse Engineering

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• 12/01/1997, "Books for Business Rules", Database Programming and Design, Moriarty, Terry

  Review of The Fifth Discipline, Data Model Patterns and Data Reverse Engineering

• 11/01/1997, "When to Reverse the Rules", Database Programming and Design, Moriarty, Terry

  Describes situations where the only way you're going to find out what business rules are being enforced by your organization is by reverse engineering the code.

• 10/01/1997, "Getting Your Business Rules Automatically", Database Programming and Design, Moriarty, Terry

  Examines four reverse engineering products against the evaluation criteria published in the 6/97 issue of Database Programming and Design.

• 06/01/1997, "Reverse Engineering Tools: How to Pick Them", Database Programming and Design, Moriarty, Terry

  Provides criteria which can be used to evaluate products that scan/parse source code to extract business rules. While these products are currently thought of as Year 2000 tools, they have a bright future in support of data warehouse mapping and application conversion efforts.

• 05/01/1997, "Mining for Metadata", Database Programming and Design, Moriarty, Terry; Schmidt, Bob

  Provides an introduction to data reverse engineering and data mapping templates. Highlights the fact that data mapping is not just a data warehouse activity, but is required for any project that includes data interchange between applications.

• 12/01/1992, "Migrating the Legacy", Database Programming and Design, Moriarty, Terry

  Provides an introduction to COBOL reverse engineering techniques for populating a repository

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