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WCRE
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Leveraging Visio for Adoption-Centric Reverse Engineering Tools
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...
WCRE
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Problems Creating Task-relevant Clone Detection Reference Data
One prevalent method for evaluating the results of automated software analysis tools is to compare the tools’ output to the judgment of human experts. This evaluation strategy i...
Andrew Walenstein, Nitin Jyoti, Junwei Li, Yun Yan...
WCRE
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
An Experimentation Framework for Evaluating Disassembly and Decompilation Tools for C++ and Java
The inherent differences between C++ and Java programs dictate that the methods used for reverse engineering their compiled executables will be languagespecific. This paper looks ...
Lori Vinciguerra, Linda M. Wills, Nidhi Kejriwal, ...
WCRE
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Moving Towards Quality Attribute Driven Software Architecture Reconstruction
There are many good reasons why organizations should perform software architecture reconstructions. However, few organizations are willing to pay for the effort. Software architec...
Christoph Stoermer, Liam O'Brien, Chris Verhoef
WCRE
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Toward an environment for comprehending distributed systems
Many modern software systems are often large, distributed, written in more than one programming language, and developed using pre-built components. This paper presents the results...
Maher Salah, Spiros Mancoridis
WCRE
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Comparative Evaluation of Dynamic Visualisation Tools
Despite their potential applications in software comprehension, it appears that dynamic visualisation tools are seldom used outside the research laboratory. This paper presents an...
Michael J. Pacione, Marc Roper, Murray Wood
WCRE
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
GUI Ripping: Reverse Engineering of Graphical User Interfaces for Testing
Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are important parts of today’s software and their correct execution is required to ensure the correctness of the overall software. A popular tec...
Atif M. Memon, Ishan Banerjee, Adithya Nagarajan
WCRE
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Completeness of a Fact Extractor
The process of software reverse engineering commonly uses an extractor, which parses source code and extracts facts about the code. The level of detail in these facts varies from ...
Yuan Lin, Richard C. Holt, Andrew J. Malton
WCRE
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
RegReg: a Lightweight Generator of Robust Parsers for Irregular Languages
In reverse engineering, parsing may be partially done to extract lightweight source models. Parsing code containing preprocessing directives, syntactical errors and embedded langu...
Mario Latendresse