In many areas of software engineering, empirical studies are playing an increasingly important role. This stems from the fact that software technologies are often based on heurist...
The usefulness of design patterns in forward engineering is already well-known and several tools provide support for their application in the development of software systems. Whil...
There are many reasons why reverse engineering research tools often fail to be evaluated or adopted in industry. Their rough user interfaces and poor interoperability are just two...
Qin Zhu, Yu Chen, Piotr Kaminski, Anke Weber, Holg...
—An important application of binary-level reverse engineering is in reconstructing the internal logic of computer malware. Most malware code is distributed in encrypted (or “pa...
Many C++ extractors exist that produce syntax trees, call graphs, and metrics from C++ code, yet few offer integrated querying, navigation, and visualization of sourcecode-level f...