Presentation given by our CTO, Dr. Stéphane Barbey, at the SiriusCon 2015 in Paris (www.siriuscon.org). Brief introduction of Paranor, our modernization approach, how we do business rule mining and how Obeo Sirius can be used to describe the system by means of a set of viewpoints.

1. Sirius Viewpoints &
Software Modernization
Stéphane Barbey, PhD
December 2015

2. About Paranor
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Founded in 1978
35 Employees
PhD/Msc/Bsc
Individual Software
Development
Modernization
Consulting
High Standards
Model Based
Approaches
DSLs
Offices in
Wahlendorf (CH)
Stansstadt (CH)
Cebu (PH)
Finance
Public
Administration
Transportation
Energy
Communications
Continuous
innovation
state-of-the-art
methods
and technologies

3. Agenda
Software Modernization
The Respec Approach
to Business Rules mining
Its Tooling
The Use of Sirius Viewpoints
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4. I – Modernization
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8. Why Replace?
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Skills
shortage
Vendor
support
Regulatory
compliance
Maintenance
costs
Access to
data
Meeting
client
expectations
Security Green IT
initiatives
Disaster
recovery
Inter
operability
Source: TSRi

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10. Architecture-Driven Modernization
Horseshoe Model (OMG)
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Business
Architecture
Application & Data
Architecture
Technical
Architecture
Longer Journey / Greater Impact
Shorter Journey / Lesser Impact
Business Domain
IT Domain
Existing Solution Target Solution
Technical Architecture-Driven
Application/Data Architecture-Driven
Business Architecture-Driven
Source: OMG

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Modernization
New
Implementation
Migration
Manual StandardTool
Model-Based
Generation
COTS

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…of COTS users did not achieve all the benefits they had
expected.
Source: Accenture

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Modernization
New
Implementation
Migration
Manual StandardTool
Model-Based
Generation
COTS

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Success rate of new implementation / manual migrations
projects.
Source: Gartner

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Modernization
New
Implementation
Migration
Manual StandardTool
Model-Based
Generation
COTS

16. Modernization Process
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Data Migration
Models (DSLs)
Iterative Migration
Assess
Import and
transform into
models (DSL)
Code Generation
and/or
Business Semantics
Extraction
Transform
into models
Extract
Rules &
Generate
Java
XML
PDF
…
Enterprise
Architecture
Repository

17. Advantages and Benefits of
Model-based Migration
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Source: itemis
Automation
• Optimization of
Quality/Cost/Time
• Accurately fitting automation
leads to maintainable software
• Short freeze-time
• Parallel development of old
and new system
Target
Architecture
• Full freedom in definition of
architecture
• Consistent implementation
through code generation
• Easier to integrate developers
from the legacy system
Future
Development
• Model-driven software
development
• Adaptations are easier
• Cheaper Maintenance

18. II – Mining Business Rules
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• …of source code contains business logic.
• Remaining supports infrastructure-related activities.
Source: Ulrich & Newcomb

22. Respec
Extracting Business Rules
• Extracting business logic from legacy code
to obtain a first-class asset for:
• Architectural assessments and blueprints
• Migration
• Business re-engineering
• and more
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23. Respec Process & Tool Support
Code
• Possibly
multiple
programming
languages
Business
Logic
• Readable
• Descriptive
• Simplified
• Procedural
Business
Specification
• Basis for new
requirements
• Basis for code
generation
• Rigorous Business Logic mining
method
• Rooted in true operational business
rules
• Prevents “invention” of facts
• Provides traceability through
interlinking
• Supports coverage analysis and
progress monitoring
• Business Logic model and
Specification model …
• Can be augmented with new or
changed requirements
• Provide a precise and detailed basis for
implementation / retargeting
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25. Bottom Up / Reverse Engineering
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26. Business Logic (Editor)
➔ readable
➔ descriptive
➔ simplified
➔ procedural
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27. Business Logic before & after
raw BLogic (≅ Code) genuine BLogic
➔ Focus on business logic
➔ No technical noise
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28. BLogic before & after
Genuine BLogic
➔ business terminology
➔ annotated
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29. Bottom Up / Reverse Engineering
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30. Specification Composer
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31. Specification artifacts
• Specification Composer allows to edit specification model,
mainly referencing Business Logic artifacts
• Derived products (from spec model):
• generated specs as PDF or Wiki
• generated viewpoints (diagrams)
• generated input for EA tool/repository
• basis for code generation
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32. III Viewpoints on
Modernization Artifacts
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33. Viewpoints
• A software system usually cannot be described with one notation
for all relevant aspects.
• Also, the development process requires different aspects to be
described by different roles at different times, as you want to be
sure to have a clean separation of concerns.
• Hence it is important to identify the set of viewpoints relevant
for describing the different concerns of a system
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34. Viewpoints
Graphical
Textual
Spreadsheet
Form
...
• Provide notations and
abstractions for viewpoint.
• Choose the best
representation to convey the
concepts you need to express.
• Consider mixed notations
• E.g. text inside diagrams
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35. Graphical Editors
• Good to express
• Sequence flows / State machines
• Relationships and Dependencies
• Timing / Synchronizations
• ....
• Not good for e.g. expressions
• ... But think of formulas
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36. Editors (Text)
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Every model (DSL) has
its own editor, and is
stored as a file, or as
XML.

37. Editors (Forms)
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Workbench also
supports form-
based editors
Example: business
specification
editor

38. Editors (Graphical)
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… and graphical editors
Example: component-
architecture diagram

39. Editors (Wireframe Sketches)
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… and UI editors
Example: wire-
frame sketch for
3270 block
mode terminal
interface

40. Cartography: Impact Analysis
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Cluster
visualization of
model
dependencies
allows for
impact analysis
and decision-
making w.r.t.
iterative
migration.

41. Viewpoints
• Consider not just the notation
• But also the tooling
• Actions,
• Refactorings,
• Filter,
• Customization,
• Grouping,
• Printing
• ...
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42. Component Diagram
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43. Types Overview
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44. Types Hierarchy
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45. Dependency Diagrams
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46. Sequence Diagrams
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48. Thank You!
Stéphane Barbey, CTO
stephane.barbey@paranor.ch
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbey
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