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WCRE
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Source versus Object Code Extraction for Recovering Software Architecture
The architecture of many large software systems is rarely documented and if documented it is usually out of date. To support developers maintaining and evolving these systems, an ...
Ahmed E. Hassan, Zhen Ming Jiang, Richard C. Holt
WCRE
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Symbolic Interpretation of Legacy Assembly Language
We apply static analysis and symbolic interpretation techniques to reverse engineer the semantics of legacy assembler code. We examine the case of IBM-1800 programs in detail. Fro...
Jacques Carette, Pulak Kumar Chowdhury
WCRE
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Search-Based Amorphous Slicing
Deji Fatiregun, Mark Harman, Robert M. Hierons
WCRE
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Multiple Layer Clustering of Large Software Systems
Software clustering algorithms presented in the literature rarely incorporate in the clustering process dynamic information, such as the number of function invocations during runt...
Bill Andreopoulos, Aijun An, Vassilios Tzerpos, Xi...
STEP
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Elemental Design Patterns Recognition In Java
The decomposition of design patterns into simpler elements may reduce significantly the creation of variants in forward engineering, while it increases the possibility of identify...
Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Stefano Masiero, Claudi...
CSMR
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Maintenance and Analysis of Visual Programs -- An Industrial Case
A domain-specific visual language, Function Block Language (FBL), is used in Metso Automation for writing automation control programs. The same engineering environment is used for...
Mika Karaila, Tarja Systä
ASWEC
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A Comparison of Reverse Engineering Tools Based on Design Pattern Decomposition
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...
Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Stefano Masiero, Claudi...
PPPJ
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Experiences with the development of a reverse engineering tool for UML sequence diagrams: a case study in modern Java developmen
The development of a tool for reconstructing UML sequence diagrams from executing Java programs is a challenging task. We implemented such a tool designed to analyze any kind of J...
Matthias Merdes, Dirk Dorsch
WIOPT
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Reverse engineering MAC
— This paper reverse-engineers backoff-based random-access MAC protocols in ad-hoc networks. We show that the contention resolution algorithm in such protocols is implicitly part...
Ao Tang, Jang-Won Lee, Jianwei Huang, Mung Chiang,...