A Model-Driven Approach to Reengineering Processes in Cloud Computing
This work tackles the challenge of standardizing reengineering processes for cloud migration, which is incremental as it builds on existing disparate methods.
The paper addresses the problem of reengineering legacy software applications to cloud platforms, where existing methods lack integrated standard models, leading to interoperability and tailoring issues.
The reengineering process of large data-intensive legacy software applications to cloud platforms involves different interrelated activities. These activities are related to planning, architecture design, re-hosting/lift-shift, code refactoring, and other related ones. In this regard, the cloud computing literature has seen the emergence of different methods with a disparate point of view of the same underlying legacy application reengineering process to cloud platforms. As such, the effective interoperability and tailoring of these methods become problematic due to the lack of integrated and consistent standard models.