22 Apr
2010
22 Apr
'10
11:02 p.m.
On 22 apr 2010, at 20:53, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
Ok now how do you see moose helping.
1 Visualize the complexity of the cobol programs and files.
2 Visualize dependencies between cobol programs and files
3 Visualize what functionality is migrated from cobol to smalltalk
4 Visualize what functionality is eliminated/not used
5 Visualize what functionality is added
6 Easier navigate and browse the cobol source
7 Find and eliminate duplication in the cobol code
8 Generate smalltalk data file accessors from the parse tree
9 Visualize data file contents
10 Visualize data changes in time
11 Identify incompabilities with OpenCobol
We need to estimate the size of the migration effort,
show in a spike we can co-exist and transfer data,
identify risks, create and describe a migration path
with small enough steps, and show progress and
work remaining.
Stephan