Abstract

The software development is primarily more important for the business organization due to its dynamic changes that has to be carried out in a less span of time. Consequently, software reuse will improves the quality of the product, increases the productivity and reduces the costs in an organization. This study presents generic automated tools for analyzing the legacy software systems, which consists of loader, set of parsers and dependency mapper that visualize and transforms different legacy codes. Moreover, we have adopted ANTLR tool to analyze the Legacy Software Systems using multi-threaded environment.

Keywords:

Legacy software systems, multi-threaded environment, ANTLR Parser, performance analysis,

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