— The Name in Software Engineering Automation

Welcome!

We are an independent software vendor (ISV), specializing in developing and marketing:

Meta-tools for automating software engineering

...and providing training and consulting in their use.

Our premiere product is XTRAN, an expert system we have developed to provide the rule-driven automation of:

•  Code analysis — including both ad hoc and production, from simple to very complex
•  Code re-engineering — applying transformations to existing code, from simple to very complex
•  Code translation — including assemblers to higher languages and many other language combinations
•  Code generation — such as compilation
•  Text processing — including the use of sophisticated regular expressions

Because of XTRAN's power and sophistication, and the depth and expressiveness of its rules language, we can make the following sweeping claim:

“Our XTRAN expert system has the ability to automate, through the creation of rules, virtually any software engineering task to the greatest possible extent.”

This includes automating every aspect of every software engineering project and process, including major undertakings such as legacy modernization.  We back up this claim with many examples.

Whether you want to document, analyze, standardize, improve, or re-engineer your code, or need to change programming languages, computer hardware, operating systems, or APIs, our software and services can help you.  Put our 40+ years of creating sophisticated, high-quality software to work for you!

Languages XTRAN can manipulate include:

• Assemblers (2GLs)
• Third generation languages (3GLs) such as C, COBOL, Fortran, Pascal,and PL/I
• Fourth generation languages (4GLs) such as Natural, RPG, and SAS
• Meta-data languages such as XML
• Markup languages such as HTML
• Proprietary languages of any level
• Scripting languages
• Database languages such as SQL
• Any parsable language!

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 XTRAN — Our expert system for automating the analysis, re-engineering, and translation of computer languages

 XTRAN Examples:  Automation of code analysis, translation, re-engineering, generation, and text processing

 Software Engineering Services

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 About Our Company

 About Stephen F. Heffner, our President and founder

 Mr. Heffner's Curriculum Vitæ

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XTRAN is a trademark of Pennington Systems Incorporated, and VMS of Hewlett-Packard.

NOTE:  WE MOVED TO SUNNY ARIZONA

After many years in New Jersey (since our inception in 1977),
we relocated to Scottsdale, Arizona in October of 2005.
(Our Web and email addresses did not change.)