Program transformation to enhance the reuse potential of procedural software

Abstract

Object-oriented concepts seem to be useful concerning the reuse of ~xlsting soRwarc. Therefore a transformation of procedural programs to object-oriented programs becomes an important process to enhance the reuse potentiai of procedural programs. In this paper we describe a program transformation process, which transforms originally procedural systems to object-oriented systems. The objects of the resulting systcrn may then be used for further object-oriented systems engineering, avoiding many problems arising in connection with procedural software reuse (i.e. module interconnectionl etc.).