Workshop on Object-Oriented Reengineering : Report of the Sixth International Workshop on Object-Oriented Reengineering

The ability to reengineer object-oriented legacy systems has become a vital matter in today’s software industry. Early adopters of the object-oriented programming paradigm are now facing the problems of transforming their object-oriented “legacy” systems into full-fledged frameworks. To address this problem, a series of workshops have been organised to set up a forum for exchanging experiences, discussing solutions, and exploring new ideas. Typically,these workshops are organised as satellite events of major software engineering conferences,such as ECOOP’97 [1], ESEC/FSE’97 [3], ECOOP’98 [7], ECOOP’99 [6],ESEC/FSE’99 [4], ECOOP’03 [2], ECOOP’04 [16]. The last of this series so far has been organised in conjunction with ECOOP’05 and this report summarises the key discussions and outcome of that workshop.8 As preparation to the workshop, participants were asked to submit a position paper which would help in steering the workshop discussions. Moreover, researchers working on dynamic analysis were invited to compare the results of their approaches by applying their tools on a common case (ArgoUML). As a result, we received 10 position papers, of which 9 authors were present during the workshop. Together with 3 organisers and 5 participants without position paper, the workshop numbered 17 participants. The position papers, the list of participants, and other information about the workshop are available on the web-site of the workshop at http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/WOOR