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As software systems evolve, it becomes increasingly complex for maintainers to keep them aligned with rapidly changing business requirements. Therefore the cost of software maintenance often exceeds the cost of its initial development or adaptation. As a result, automated approaches for software comprehension emerge providing valuable improvements and cost-savings for the software maintenance. This paper presents an approach that facilitates software comprehension by enabling traceability of implementation of business rules and business scenarios in the software system. It also describes a case study on application of this approach for comprehension of business logic implemented in the enterprise content management system and reports obtained results.
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Normantas, K., Vasilecas, O. (2012). Extracting Business Rules from Existing Enterprise Software System. In: Skersys, T., Butleris, R., Butkiene, R. (eds) Information and Software Technologies. ICIST 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 319. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33308-8_40
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