A Model-Driven Approach to Reengineering Processes in Cloud Computing

TL;DR

This paper proposes a model-driven approach to reengineering legacy software applications for cloud computing, aiming to unify and standardize the diverse methods involved in the process.

Contribution

It introduces an integrated model-driven framework to streamline and standardize the reengineering activities for cloud migration of legacy applications.

Findings

Provides a unified framework for reengineering processes

Enhances interoperability of different reengineering methods

Facilitates systematic cloud migration of legacy systems

Abstract

The reengineering process of large data-intensive legacy software applications to cloud platforms involves different interrelated activities. These activities are related to planning, architecture design, re-hosting/lift-shift, code refactoring, and other related ones. In this regard, the cloud computing literature has seen the emergence of different methods with a disparate point of view of the same underlying legacy application reengineering process to cloud platforms. As such, the effective interoperability and tailoring of these methods become problematic due to the lack of integrated and consistent standard models.