Reflexivity and meta-tools to manage your software real estate

Summary form only given, as follows. This tutorial describes tools and techniques for extracting information from large software code bases. Applications described include: * Reverse engineering, abstracting design information from the code. * Metrics for portability, maintainability, etc. * Checking how effectively tests exercise the code. * Change impact analysis. * Automated translations, between languages and libraries. * Checking compliance to industry or project guidelines. * Refactorings, that translate high-level design changes into existing code. Tools and techniques used cover a range from Perl to the use of reflexive language features. The emphasis will be put on how does OO technology contribute.