Telephone switch from Lucent. For a while the biggest software system in the world (10M loc?). Used in many research experiments by Lucent dealing with, e.g., DomainSpecificLanguages ...

A new revision of this paper is available under the title Survey of Strategies in Rule Based Program Transformation Systems. Main.EelcoVisser 12 Mar 2004 Main.EelcoVisser ...

Acacia, the C++ Information Abstraction System, is a collection of analysis and ReverseEngineering tools for CPP developed by AT T . CCia creates a program database ...

I work at the Center for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. My home page is housed at http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~walenste I ...

ArchitectureExtraction is an attempt to recover SoftwareArchitecture from, for example, the source of a LegacySystem. ArchitectureExtraction typically starts with ...

I work at CWI, Amsterdam see http://www.cwi.nl/~arie/ Since this ProgramTransformation wiki covers many topics related to reverse and reengineering, and since these ...

Every few months, I get an email asking where to find an automatic decompiler that will take a binary as input and produce good quality C or C++ code for maintaining ...

HomePage: http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~bmitchel Research Web Page: http://serg.mcs.drexel.edu email: bmitchel@mcs.drexel.edu Research Interests: ReverseEngineering ...

CIAO is a customizable and extensible navigator developed by AT T . It allows users to query, analyze, visualize, and track structures of various software and document ...

CategoryReverseEngineering: pages devoted to ReverseEngineering. SEARCH{search "CategoryReverseEngineering" nosummary "on" scope "text" noheader "on" nosearch "on ...

CategoryTeaching: pages devoted to teaching ProgramTransformation, ReverseEngineering, ... SEARCH{search "CategoryTeaching" nosummary "on" scope "text" noheader "on ...

CategoryTutorial: Category of tutorial articles in the areas of ProgramTransformation, ReverseEngineering, ... SEARCH{search "CategoryTutorial" nosummary "on" scope ...

Finding groups in data by computing distances or similarities between elements. In ReverseEngineering, typically used for remodularization, ObjectIdentification, and ...

CodeCrawler is a language independent ReverseEngineering tool for systems written in ObjectOrientedProgrammingLanguages which combines metrics and SoftwareVisualization ...

Columbus/CAN is a reverse engineering tool devloped by FrontEndART. It is available as a free download. The system extracts C++ (ISO/IEC standard C++, Microsoft and ...

ConceptAnalysis is a mathematical approach to building taxonomies. Given a set of objects, a set of attributes, and a feature table telling which object has which ...

DERIVE: a tool to ReverseEngineering instruction encodings http://www.cs.utah.edu/~wilson/papers/derive-usenix01.html Source: http://www.cs.utah.edu/~wilson/derive ...

Several papers covering DSL design issues such as DomainEngineering are discussed in the DSLAnnotatedBibliography. This page contains several DSLBibliographyAdditions ...

In information systems, or data-oriented applications, i.e., in applications the central component of which is a database (or a set of permanent files), it is generally ...

Decompilation is a ProgramTransformation by which a high-level source code for an executable program is discovered. Decompilation is the inverse of ProgramCompilation ...

The colloquial use of "reverse engineering" and the formal one are somewhat different. Crackers speak of "reversing" a program, when they are talking about a quick ...

Is Decompilation Possible? Almost every week requests for decompilation programs are made in newsgroups (like comp.lang.c), and these are usually replied with: It ...

This page contains links to projects peripherally related to decompilation. TOC Binary files Information on the internal format of binary files at the Wotsit's File ...

Reverse Engineering Compiler (REC) Tests Some simple tests were performed on REC 1.6 for Linux. TOC Fibo/286 This test file is the same one used to test the 286 decompilers ...

Contact Arne de Bruijn arbruijn@students.cs.uu.nl Martin Bravenboer mbravenb@students.cs.uu.nl Presentation Slides for part 1: Introduction to reverse engineering ...

The ReverseAndReengineeringTaxonomy defines design recovery as a subset of ReverseEngineering in which domain knowledge, external information, and deduction or fuzzy ...

Disassembly Disassembly is the process of translating an executable program into its equivalent assembly representation. The greatest problem with disassembling is ...

Deriving (on line) documentation from source code. The purpose is to help maintainers or developers understand the system they are working on. The article BuildingDocumentationGenerators ...

Domain Engineering involves creating a set of reusable assets for building systems in a particular problem domain. These reusable assets are then assembled to customer ...

Standards IEEE Std. 610.12 Standard Glossary of Software Engineering Terminology , 1990 IEEE Std. 1219 Standard for Software Maintenance , 1998 ISO/IEC 14764 Software ...

ExtractorBenchmarks address the difficulties of FactsExtraction. A benchmark has many applications; it could be used by developers of extractors as a test suite; by ...

Fun way of developing software attracting a lot of attention these days. See http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExtremeProgrammingRoadmap for an extensive (and great!) wiki ...

FactsExtraction is the first step of a ReverseEngineering or ReEngineering effort. An extractor (a.k.a. parser or analyzer) processes the LegacySystem's artifacts ...

Description FermaT is an industrial strength program transformation system targeted at reverse engineering, program comprehension and migration between programming ...

FermaT is developed by Software Migrations Ltd, based on the work of Martin Ward (Martin.Ward@durham.ac.uk). FermaT is an industrial strength program transformation ...

The ReverseAndReengineeringTaxonomy defines forward engineering as the traditional process of moving from high-level abstractions and logical, implementation-independent ...

FrontEndART provides extractor front ends for the re/reverse engineering community in industry and academia. Our tools produce data that conform to a generally applicable ...

You can use this page to give your opinions on this Wiki: tell us what you think! The ReengineeringWiki is rather incomplete and biased towards the current users. ...

History of Decompilation (1960-1979) Decompilers have been written for a variety of applications since the development of the first compilers. The very first decompiler ...

History of Decompilation (1980-1999) See also On the Inverse of Compiling, April 1980. #TopicZebra Zebra, 1981 The Zebra prototype was developed at the Naval Underwater ...

History of Decompilation (2000-present) #TopicAsm21toc University of London's Asm21toc reverse compiler, 2000. This assembly language decompiler for Digital Signal ...

IDA Pro is a commercial program for disassembling a wide array of different file types for different processors, written by Ilfak Guilfanov. It can disassemble virtually ...

Imagix Corporation produces reverse engineering, quality metrics, and documentation solutions. Imagix provides provides tools and support to help developers work with ...

Imagix 4D is a ReverseEngineering, metrics and DocumentationGeneration tool for legacy C and C++ software. From ImagixCorporation, Imagix 4D is intended for developers ...

Description An island grammar only precisely defines small portions of the syntax of a language. The rest of the syntax is defined imprecisely, for instance as a ...

TOC Java Bytecode Decompilers Decompilers that read Java bytecode programs usually decompile to Java, since that is the language that the majority of such programs ...

Java is an object-oriented language. http://www.java.sun.com/ Compilers Decompilers Dynamic Compilers Native Compilers Transformation Systems Parser Generators Transformation ...

contactinformatie: Matthias van Mourik (mmourik@cs.uu.nl) Vincent van Harmelen( vharmele@cs.uu.nl) projectomschrijving: argouml uitbreiden zodat de omzetting van ...

Contact Information Laboratory of Database Application Engineering (LIBD) University of Namur rue grandgagnage 21d 5000 Namur Belgium e-mail : jean.henrard@info.fundp ...

home page http://www-adele.imag.fr/~jmfavre I've just understood how Wiki works. That's fun! (well, I still do not understand what is the parent of a page or at least ...

Legal aspects of ReverseEngineering can be complicated. CristinaCifuentes has collected some information on http://www.csee.uq.edu.au/~cristina/cal.html (now somewhat ...

If decompilation is possible to a certain extent, is it then also allowed? Decompilation can be used for a number of reasons (see WhyDecompilation for more), including ...

Decompilation of machine code programs usually requires a general approach. This approach analyses the semantics of the executable, and from this derives an equivalent ...

Object Identification is the search for candidate classes in a (procedural) LegacySystem See, for example, the following papers and their references: Maarit Haarsu ...

Definition Program transformation is the act of changing one program into another. The term program transformation is also used for a program, or any other description ...

PREA Panel on Reverse Engineering and Architectural evolution Co-located with CSMR 2002 Tuesday 12 March 2002, 14:00 16:00 ReverseEngineering is the process of recovering ...

Practical Reusable UNIX Software Krishnamurthy (editor) John Wiley Sons, 1995. Book about a collection of software from AT T Research Labs including AcaCia / CIAO ...

Program Comprehension Risks and Opportunities in Extreme Programming ArieVanDeursen , CWI, May 2001. Proceedings WCRE 2001, IEEE Computer Society. Abstract We investigate ...

Definition Refactoring is typically applied at the level of programs (i.e., source code). A program refactoring is a program transformation that improves the design ...

(See also ModelTransformation ) A Definition A program is a structured object with semantics. The structure allows us to transform a program. The semantics gives us ...

International Conference on Reverse Engineering for Information Systems http://lisi.insa-lyon.fr/~retis/ Submission: January Conference: July

Redocumentation is the simplest and oldest form of ReverseEngineering. The ReverseAndReengineeringTaxonomy defines redocumentation as a form of ReStructuring where ...

The ReverseAndReengineeringTaxonomy defines reengineering as: the examination and alteration of a subject system to reconstitute it in a new form and the subsequent ...

http://www.glossa.co.uk/reap.html GRAY The REAP tools by InterGlossa Ltd support reverse engineering services, especially for microcontrollers such as the Zilog Z80 ...

http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk:80/archive/redo/ From the site: "This archive contains information relevant to the ESPRIT II REDO project (no. 2487, 1989-1992) concerned ...

An on line bibliography on ReEngineering compiled by RainerKoschke is available via http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ifi/ps/reengineering/index.html You can ...

The Reengineering Forum is an industry association to encourage combined industry/research review of the state of the art and the state of the practice in reengineering ...

SpencerRugaber and LindaWills. Creating a research infrastructure for reengineering. In 3d Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE, 1996. http://www.cc.gatech ...

Welcome to the Reverse and Reengineering Roadmap! The purpose of this roadmap is to provide a forum where all sorts of topics related to ReverseEngineering and ReEngineering ...

The Reengineering Wiki ArieVanDeursen and EelcoVisser In Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering ( CSMR ), 2002. IEEE ...

TOC Introduction Below the main pages of the ReengineeringWiki are listed. It provides an overview of the topics currently discussed. The map below is partly generated ...

http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/projects/renaissance/index.html This web site is intended as a resource for the entire Software ReEngineering community. It also covers ...

In 1990, ElliotChikofsky and JamesCross published Reverse Engineering and Design Recovery: A Taxonomy , IEEE Software 7(1):13-17, 1990. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety ...

The ReverseAndReengineeringTaxonomy defines reverse engineering as: The process of analyzing a subject system with two goals in mind: 1 to identify the system's components ...

Reverse Engineering: A Roadmap HausiMueller, JensJahnke, Dennis Smith, PeggyStorey, Scott Tilley, and KennyWong In A, Finkelstein (ed.) The Future of Software Engineering ...

http://www.backerstreet.com/rec/rec.htm REC, a Reverse Engineering Compiler by Giampiero Caprino (gcaprino@katamail.com), is a portable decompiler which supports a ...

Several surveys of reverse and reengineering research have been published. These include: ReverseAndReengineeringTaxonomy ReengineeringBibliography ReverseEngineeringARoadmap ...

Information if you are new to Rigi: Purpose Rigi is a ReverseEngineering environment. It consists of a set of tools: parsers, command-line utilities, and an interactive ...

Samples of Completed Reverse Engineering Projects Azureus (Java) for for VISSOFT Tool Demo Challenge (1st Prize): http://www.program-comprehension.org/vissoft07/VISSOFT2007 ...

Publication list (until ~1998, now outdated): http://www.rigi.csc.uvic.ca/Pages/publications.html More recent publications: Rigi An Environment for Software Reverse ...

Rigi Command Library (RCL) RCL is a Rigi-specific library written in Tcl/Tk. See RigiUserManual, Section 4.5. The RCL code distributed with rigiedit is located in ...

Specification: RigiRSFSpecification Errata: In a source-location the elements are separated with comma, not semicolon. Errata for "Appendix: Tool Support": rigiedit ...

The following systems are built on top of Rigi: BauHaus Atomic Architectural Component Recovery for Program Understanding and Evolution, Rainer Koschke. Dissertation ...

ReverseEngineering system to extract, navigate, analyze and document the static structure of large software systems. http://rigi.uvic.ca/Media/howpic1.gif The topics ...

BrueggeAndDutoit define round trip engineering as A model maintenance activity that combines forward and reverse engineering. Changes to the implementation model are ...

Software Design And Management AG. http://www.sdm.de/ Consulting firm which also does ReEngineering projects using its own hypertext repository called SHORE. SHORE ...

Scientific Toolworks, Inc. We make tools that help developers understand, document, and maintain impossibly large or complex amounts of source code. What our tools ...

ICGT 2002 Workshop on Software Evolution Through Transformations (SET 2002) Towards uniform support throughout the software life-cycle Transformations of artefacts ...

Software generation is a class of transformations in which software implementations are generated from high-level specifications or (broadly interpreted) of generating ...

The ReverseAndReengineeringTaxonomy defines software renovation as a synonym for ReEngineering. In CWI parlance, it is covers research in the areas of ReverseEngineering ...

The SEN1 research group at CWI works on the following SoftwareRenovation topics: DocumentationGeneration for COBOL systems ArchitectureExtraction Type inferencing ...

The software visualization 1 group at GeorgiaTech describes software visualization as: the use of computer graphics and animation to help illustrate and present computer ...

Spencer Rugaber, GeorgiaTech, Atlanta Topics: ReverseEngineering ProgramUnderstanding See http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Spencer.Rugaber/ CategoryPeople

Software Architecture Recovery and Modelling WCRE 2001 Discussion Forum Stuttgart, 2 October, 2001 Software architecture recovery aims at presenting existing software ...

Software Architecture Recovery and Modelling WCRE 2001 Discussion Forum Stuttgart, 2 October, 2001 Software architecture recovery aims at presenting existing software ...

Software Architecture Recovery and Modelling WCRE 2001 Discussion Forum Stuttgart, 2 October, 2001 SwarmForum Call for Participation Software architecture recovery ...

TXL: Tree Transformation Language Homepage: http://www.txl.ca/ The TreeRewriting language TXL (developed by JamesCordy at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada) ...

With the advent of set top boxes, mobile software, and other factors, software authors are wanting to create applications that are resistant to reverse engineering ...

http://www.tcse.org/revengr/ derived/home.htm cmp indust110 bnr.gif The IEEE TCSE Committee on ReverseEngineering and ReEngineering This committee, chaired by CristinaCifuentes ...

Ingredients of a Course on Transformation What should a good course on transformation offer? Existing Courses about Transformation A list of courses with transformation ...

What should a course on SoftwareEvolution cover? The CCSE initiative has recognized software evolution as a separate knowledge area . The second draft of this initiative ...

ProgramTransformation techniques are used in a many areas of SoftwareEngineering ranging from ProgramSynthesis, via ProgramOptimization and ProgramRefactoring, to ...

Application Areas Compiling ProgramTranslation ProgramOptimization SoftwareEngineering ProgramRefinement SoftwareMaintenance ReverseEngineering HighPerformanceComputing ...

Conferences and Workshops on Program Transformation Transform-based Events Events with their home page on this wiki. Feel free to use this wiki to host the webpage ...

A ProgramTransformation paradigm is an area of application of TransformationTechniques. Paradigms that are employed in compilers and other automatic language processors ...

An overview of various forms of ProgramTransformation. Translation ProgramMigration ProgramSynthesis ProgramRefinement ProgramCompilation ReverseEngineering DeCompilation ...

Understanding Software Systems Using Reverse Engineering Technologies: Research and Practice HausiMueller , Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria ...

There are many tools for editing UML diagrams. I conducted a little comparison to find a good tool to use in a software engineering course in the Spring of 2000. This ...

Working Conference on ReverseEngineering Submission: May (varies slightly) Conference: October (varies slightly) Pointers Upcoming conference web site: http://swerl ...

Background If you are involved in extracting information, artifacts, architectural components (or anything else of value) from existing systems then you should be ...

WCRE Call for Workshop Proposals NOTE: This page is obviously obsolete, as it refers to the 2002 conference. However, it can be reworked for future conferences. WCRE ...

Submission of Papers Step 1: Authors are requested to notify the program committee of intent to submit a paper by May 1, 2002. This is optional but allows the committee ...

Topics Topics discussed at WCRE include but are not limited to: SoftwareMaintenance and SoftwareEvolution DeCompilation and BinaryTranslation ProgramComprehension ...

Workshop Proposals Continuing the successful extension of WCRE with workshops in the last two years, WCRE 2002 offers you the opportunity to organize a workshop devoted ...

INCLUDE{WebNews} transformation techniques are used in a many areas of engineering ranging from synthesis, via optimization and refactoring, to engineering and generation ...

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The design and evaluation of appropriate SoftwareArchitectures is key to the effective development, management, evolution, and reuse of software systems. However, ...