Teach reverse engineering, program understanding, and software analysis in computer
science, computer engineering, and software engineering curricula. Investigate …

Achievements and challenges in software reverse engineering Page 1 142 communications of
the acm | april 2011 | vol. 54 | no. 4 review articles the need FOR changing existing software has …

Recovery of higher level “design” information and the ability to create dynamic, task
adaptable software documentation is crucial to supporting a number of program …

Program understanding can be enhanced using reverse engineering technologies. The
understanding process is heavily dependent on both individuals and their specific cognitive …

Reverse engineering is focused on the challenging task of understanding legacy program
code without having suitable documentation. Using a transformational forward engineering …

The main focus of program understanding and reverse engineering research has been on
modeling the structure of a program by examining its code. This has been the result of the …

The Rigi environment is a mature research tool that provides functionality to reverse
engineer software systems. With Rigi large systems can be analyzed, interactively explored …

Surprising as it may seem, many of the early adopters of the object-oriented paradigm
already face a number of problems typically encountered in large-scale legacy systems …

Reverse engineering tools support software engineers in the process of analyzing and
understanding complex software systems during maintenance activities. The functionality of …

Beginning with a basic primer on reverse engineering-including computer internals,
operating systems, and assembly language-and then discussing the various applications of …