Component recovery supports program understanding, architecture recovery, and re-use. Among the best known techniques for detection of re-usable objects (related global variables ...
Several reverse engineering methods for recovering objects from legacy systems have been proposed in the literature, but most of them neglect to identify the relationships among t...
Giuseppe A. Di Lucca, Anna Rita Fasolino, Ugo de C...
Better understanding manual reverse engineering can make it and any associated systems reengineering more effective. We reverse engineered a version of a system (referred to as &q...
Dave Swafford, Diana Elman, Peter Aiken, Jeff Merh...
The reengineering and reverse engineering of software systems is gaining importance in software industry, because the accelerated turnover in software companies creates legacy sys...
It has long been accepted that requirements analysis should precede architectural design and implementation, but in software evolution and reverse engineering this concern with bl...
Design pattern detection is a reverse engineering methodology that helps software engineers to analyze and understand legacy software by recovering its design and thereby aiding i...
Markus von Detten, Matthias Meyer, Dietrich Travki...
Today, software-engineering research and industry alike recognize the need for practical tools to support reverseengineering activities. Most of the well-known CASE tools support ...
Ralf Kollman, Petri Selonen, Eleni Stroulia, Tarja...
Maintenance and evolution of complex software systems (such as large telecom embedded devices) involve activities such as reverse engineering (RE) and software visualization. Alth...
One of the most critical issues in large-scale software development and maintenance is the rapidly growing size and complexity of software systems. As a result of this rapid growt...
Merging and splitting source code artifacts is a common activity during the lifespan of a software system; as developers rethink the essential structure of a system or plan for a ...