A commonly used strategy to address the scalability challenge in object-oriented reverse engineering is to synthesize coarse-grained representations, such as package diagrams. How...
Reverse Engineering is becoming increasingly important in the software development world today as many organizations are battling to understand and maintain old legacy systems. To...
Recovering design patterns can enhance existing source code analysis tools by bringing program understanding to the design level. This paper presents a new, fully automated patter...
Legacy applications are still widely spread. If a need to change deployment or update its functionality arises, it becomes difficult to estimate the performance impact of such modi...
Steffen Becker, Michael Hauck, Mircea Trifu, Klaus...
Understanding a software system by just analyzing the structure of the system reveals only half of the picture, since the structure tells us only how the code is working but not w...