Legacy Systems (1)

• Legacy systems may be defined informally as “large software systems that we don’t know how to cope with but that are vital to our organization.”

• … Reverse engineering and reengineering must become a continuing part of the process of software development and evolution.”*

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* K.Bennett: Legacy Systems: Coping with Success, IEEE Software, Jan 1995 (19-23).

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