Extraction of structural business rules from C#

Abstract

Business rules are very important assets of any enterprise. Very often they are directly coded in existing software systems. As business rules evolve during a time, the software itself becomes the only valuable source of the rules applied. The aim of the paper is to present an approach to automatic business rules extraction from existing system written in C#. Considerations are limited to structural business rules. The proposed approach was implemented in a tool which usefulness was confirmed by examples. In comparison with existing solutions for reverse-engineering it gives better results, characterized by high correctness, and accuracy.