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