practice talk tomorrow

[Susan Horwitz <horwitz@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Raghavan Komondoor will give a talk tomorrow (Wednesday) morning at 10am
in room 2310 about his planned research on a tool for automatic method
abstraction.  This is a practice talk for one that will be given at IBM
Toronto; it should last about 30 minutes.  Feedback will be greatly
appreciated!

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        Software Reengineering via Method Extraction

            Raghavan Komondoor and Susan Horwitz
               University of Wisconsin-Madison

The goal of our research is to design and implement a tool that will
improve existing code by making it more object oriented.  In
particular, the tool will transform existing code to equivalent code
in a related object-oriented language (e.g., transforming C to C++ by
introducing appropriate classes and methods), or will transform it to
better code in the original language (by introducing appropriate
definitions and functions to "simulate" classes and methods).

This talk will provide motivating examples, a brief comparison with
previous related work, and some preliminary ideas for the design of
the reengineering tool.