Abstract: One of the goals of authors of the Business Rules Approach, besides making the process of specification of software more precise and adequate, was to provide a rigorous basis for reverse engineering of business rules from existing software systems. By different reasons this goal was no more a subject of interest of the involved researchers. One of the general problems of using business rules (BRs) in the reverse engineering of software is the selection of language to present the rules, extracted from the source code. In principle, it is not impossible to use for this purpose the languages dedicated for the straightforward task – using BRs for specification of software systems. The current paper presents an overview of different such languages in order to decide whether they are appropriate for rules extraction and to outline those features which will be helpful in language comparison and selection of a specific language for BR.

Keywords: software development, software modernization, software reengineering, business rules, languages for specification of business rules, automated business rules extraction, comparative analysis.

ACM Classification Keywords: D.2.1 Requirements/Specifications, D.2.7 Distribution, Maintenance, and Enhancement.

Link:

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE LANGUAGES FOR BUSINESS RULES SPECIFICATION

Krassimir Manev, Neli Maneva

http://www.foibg.com/ijima/vol03/ijima03-02-p04.pdf