REJUVENATION OF SOFTMATCH TOOLKIT USING REENGINEERING TECHNIQUE

Abstract

SOFTMATCH is a tool developed to assist designers in understanding users mental model. In this dissertation, software rejuvenation is conducted on SOFTMATCH to increase SOFTMATCH quality on its development environment, installation and setup procedures and SOFTMATCH interface, as a maintenance effort for SOFTMATCH. Reengineering is the rejuvenation technique used to rejuvenate SOFTMATCH. The input for the rejuvenation process is the class file of SOFTMATCH, source code of SOFTMATCH (incomplete) and Java Development Kit 1.1.6. SOFTMATCH is rejuvenated using the identified reengineering technique, a combination of reverse engineering and forward engineering technique. Using Reverse engineering technique SOFTMATCH complete source code together with SOFTMATCH design and specification are acquired, then forward engineering is used to rejuvenate the development platform and the execution style which, enable the new version of SOFTMATCH to be distributed, installed and executed with ease, followed by forward engineering on SOFTMATCH interface to portray a more familiar graphical user interface and flow. During the implementation of SOFTMATCH reengineering various testing is conducted to ensure SOFTMATCH contains no error and the functional features of the original SOFTMATCH is maintained during the entire reengineering process. The reengineered SOFTMATCH is themed as SOFTMATCH2, the rejuvenation of SOFTMATCH. Later the rejuvenated SOFTMATCH2 is evaluated using usability testing and questionnaire with prospective users to prove that SOFTMATCH2 is indeed an enhancement to the original SOFTMATCH in the mention there areas, the development environment, installation and setup procedures and SOFTMATCH interface design.