FAMOOS Archive

These pages consist of an archive of the SCG FAMOOS pages. The project formally ended in August 2000. The final result of the project is the FAMOOS Reengineering Handbook. This material has been completely revised, extended and rewritten in the form of a book entitled Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns.

Last updated: 05 March 2002


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This is the home page for all FAMOOS related material maintained by the Software Composition Group (SCG) in Berne.

 

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What's FAMOOS ?

FAMOOS is a name referring to the ESPRIT Project 21975. FAMOOS is an acronym for Framework-based Approach for Mastering Object-Oriented Software Evolution.

The goal of the FAMOOS Esprit project is to support the evolution of first generation object-oriented software, built with current analysis and design methods and programming languages, to frameworks -- standard application architectures and component libraries which support the construction of numerous system variants in specific domains. Methods and tools will be developed to analyse and detect design problems with respect to flexibility in object-oriented legacy systems and to transform these systems efficiently into frameworks based on flexible architectures.

FAMOOS is a 3-year project that started at September 1996 and ended in September 1999. The project is set up with six partners:
The Software Composition Group (SCG) within the University of Bern (UOB)
A so-called "methodology provider", i.e. a partner that is expected to devise the reengineering methodology. We provided the information you are reading right now.
The SCG is located in Bern - Switzerland.
Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI)
The second methodology provider in the project. Located in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Daimler-Benz (DAB) & Nokia Corporation (NOK)
Provide us with the legacy systems that serve as CASE studies.
Daimler-Benz is from Germany, while Nokia is from Finland.
Sema Group (SEM) & TakeFive Software (TAK)
Provide us with Audit and SNiFF: useful tools in reengineering object-oriented legacy systems.
Sema is from Madrid in Spain, while TakeFive is from Salzburg in Austria.

This site contains FAMOOS related material maintained by the Software Composition group in Bern. We refer you to the official FAMOOS WWW-pages maintained by the Sema Group for more information about the project and its results.

For your convenience, we have a two page leaflet about the project in both postcript as well as ASCII format.
There is a more technical paper (postcrip format) where we list the problems we want to tackle and the initial approach we want to apply.


What's available ?

(In Alphabethical order)

ESEC-FSE'97 Workshop on Object-Oriented Reengineering (WOOR'97)
All material on the Workshop organised with the ESEC-FSE'97 Conference
ESEC-FSE'99 Workshop on Object-Oriented Reengineering (WOOR'99)
All material on the Workshop organised with the ESEC/FSE'99
FAMOOS in 2 pages (postcript)
A short (2 page) non-technical description of the FAMOOS project. These pages are also available in ASCII format.
FAMOOS Reengineering Handbook
The place where to download the public releases of the FAMOOS handbook.
FAMIX (FAMOOS Information Exchange Model)
The various releases of a specification of a model for a common interchange format to be used by the FAMOOS tool prototypes.
Publications
A list of all FAMOOS related publications produced by the FAMOOS team in Berne.
Reengineering Patterns page
A collection of candidate reengineering patterns applicable in the context of object-oriented reengineering.
Resources
A continously updated list of resources containing pointers to on-line material relevant to software reengineering.
"Using Restructuring Transformations to Reengineer Object-Oriented Systems".
A paper defining the scope of the FAMOOS project based on an overview of the case-studies.
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