COBOL/SRE: A COBOL System Renovation Environment

Abstract

COBOL/SRE is a software reengineering and renovation environment for COBOL systems. It supports a wide range of features such as system-level analysis and browsing, program-level analysis and browsing, data model recovery, concept recognition, and code segmentation. COBOL/SRE is implemented on top of a distributed execution architecture to address issues of multi-user access, performance and openness. An overview of the major features of COBOL/SRE and its underlying architecture is given.