Everything about Software modernization

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Software modernizationA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Software modernization powered by dynamic language product linesInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Ethics and technologyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: GSAS-II : the genesis of a modern open-source all purpose crystallography software packageCited 6,372 times
5. Go sideways: Legacy systemA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Architecture-driven modernizationA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• GSAS-II : the genesis of a modern open-source all purpose crystallography software package

  Brian H. Toby, Robert B. Von Dreele · 2013 · Journal of Applied Crystallography · 6,372 citations

• Using Microservices for Legacy Software Modernization

  Holger Knoche, Wilhelm Hasselbring · 2018 · IEEE Software · 100 citations

• Software modernization to embrace quantum technology

  Ricardo Pérez-Castillo, Manuel A. Serrano, Mario Piattini · 2021 · Advances in Engineering Software · 68 citations

• A taxonomy of service identification approaches for legacy software systems modernization

  Manel Abdellatif, Anas Shatnawi, Hafedh Mili · 2021 · Journal of Systems and Software · 59 citations

• Extracting models from source code in software modernization

  Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo, Jesús García Molina · 2012 · Software & Systems Modeling · 23 citations

• Contemporary Software Modernization: Strategies, Driving Forces, and Research Opportunities

  Wesley K. G. Assunção, Luciano Marchezan, Lawrence Arkoh · 2025 · ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology · 23 citations

• Software modernization by recovering Web services from legacy databases

  Ricardo Pérez‐Castillo, Ignacio García‐Rodríguez de Guzmán, Ismael Caballero · 2012 · Journal of Software: Evolution and Process · 15 citations

• Software modernization and cloudification using the ARTIST migration methodology and framework

  Andreas Menychtas, Kleopatra Konstanteli, Juncal Alonso · 2014 · Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience · 12 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Software modernization powered by dynamic language product lines

  Walter Cazzola, Luca Favalli · 2024 · Journal of Systems and Software · 4 citations

• AI-Augmented DevOps for Application Modernization: Transforming Software Development and Operations

  Prasen Reddy Yakkanti · 2025 · Journal of Computer Science and Technology Studies · 3 citations

• Microlearning in Software Engineering Education: A Systematic Review of Initiatives and Curriculum Modernization

  Franklin Parrales-Bravo · 2026 · Education Sciences · 1 citations

• Software modernization for the portable NMR spectrometer model

  Branch for Physics of Mining Processes of the M.S. Poliakov Institute of Geotechnical Mechanics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Dnipro, Ukraine, O.M. Molchanov, T.V. Pichka · 2023 · Physical and technical problems of mining production · 0 citations

• Infrastructure Modernization as a Cyber-Resilience Imperative for National Software Ecosystems

  Engineering Project Manager, USA, Kaushik Ponnapally · 2024 · International Journal of Research and Applied Innovations · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Ethics and technologyHerman T. Tavani · 2003
• 📕Urban versioning system 1.0Matthew Fuller · 2008
• Form+code in design, art, and architectureCasey Reas · 2010
• Art and computersHarold Cohen · 1984
• 📕The Archives of historyWaleed B. Ali, Malik B. Ali · 1993
• William ForsytheWilliam Forsythe, Roslyn Sulcas · 2000
• 📕Sandbox3DMan Kim · 2012
• Greek And Hebrew Tutor Bundle Pack · 1998

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🔗 Related topics

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• Data migration Data migration is the process of selecting, preparing, extracting, and transforming data and permanently transferring it from one computer storage system…
• Requirements analysis In systems engineering and software engineering, requirements analysis focuses on the tasks that determine the needs or conditions to meet the new or altered…
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• Knowledge Discovery Metamodel Knowledge Discovery Metamodel (KDM) is a publicly available specification from the Object Management Group (OMG). KDM is a common intermediate representation…
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