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, ...
High-level software artifacts, such as requirements, domain-specific requirements, and so on, are an important source of information that is often neglected during the reverse- an...
Jane Huffman Hayes, Giuliano Antoniol, Yann-Ga&eum...
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...