Re-Engineering Tools Have the Potential to Overcome Systems Maintenance Bottleneck
论文认为当前再工程工具能为维护成本高的组织带来显著好处，分类介绍了这些工具及其应用潜力，并指出它们为未来集成计算机辅助软件环境提供了迁移路径。
The paper argues that the current generation of re-engineering tools can provide significant benefits for those organizations which have high applications maintenance overheads. The paper classifies the different types of re-engineering tools and their application potential. It is argued that these tools promise to provide a migration path towards the integrated computer-aided software environments which will emerge over the next 5–10 years. This paper follows on from work which the author has undertaken for the CSC-Index Performance Enhancement Programme (PEP). PEP is a continuous programme that is open to organizations wishing to measure and improve systems development and productivity.