Large clusters of mutual dependence have long been regarded as a problem impeding comprehension, testing, maintenance, and reverse engineering. An effective visualization can aid ...
Software evolution is the most costly and time consuming software development activity. Yet software engineering research is predominantly concerned with initial development. MORA...
Gregory D. Abowd, Ashok K. Goel, Dean F. Jerding, ...
Syntactic analysis forms a foundation of many source analysis and reverse engineering tools. However, a single grammar is not always appropriate for all source analysis and manipu...
Thomas R. Dean, James R. Cordy, Andrew J. Malton, ...
This paper reviews the state of the art on application knowledge acquisiton from existing software systems and defines the role of business rules. It then goes on to present a met...
—We present a semi-automated approach for the reverse engineering of UML sequence diagrams. Our approach starts with a set of execution traces that are automatically aligned in o...