Handling Large Search Space in Pattern-Based Reverse Engineering

Large industrial legacy systems are challenges of reverseengineering activities. Reverse-engineering approaches use text-search tools based on regular expressions or work on presentations of programs, such as abstract syntax graphs. Analyzing large legacy systems often fail because of the large search space. Our approach to handle large search space in pattern-based reverse engineering is to allow imprecise results in means of false positives. We use the theory of fuzzy sets to express impreciseness and present our approach on the example of recovering associations.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: IWPC
• Authors: Jörg Niere, Jörg P. Wadsack, Lothar Wendehals
• Keywords: IWPC 2003, Large Industrial Legacy, Large Search Space, Legacy Systems, Software Engineering