In 1990, ElliotChikofsky and JamesCross published _Reverse Engineering and Design Recovery: A Taxonomy_, IEEE Software 7(1):13-17, 1990. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/52.43044 (was [[http://www.computer.org/software/so1990/s1013abs.htm][here]]).
 
Terms defined include 
	* ForwardEngineering
	* ReverseEngineering
	* ReEngineering
	* ReStructuring
	* ReDocumentation 
	* DesignRecovery

Other terms
	* RoundTripEngineering
	* SoftwareMaintenance.

The ReengineeringBibliography is available via (an updated version) of this taxonomy. See  http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ifi/ps/reengineering/taxonomy.html

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This Wiki provides an opportunity to transform a static, published taxonomy into a living taxonomy, where new terms can be added when appropriate, and existing definitions can be discussed and modified
by the entire reengineering community -- ArieVanDeursen.

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At http://tcse.org/revengr/taxonomy.html some of the key notions are repeated.
 
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Further reengineering taxonomies are available at
	* http://www.cc.gatech.edu/reverse/glossary.html
	* http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/RENG/defin.html

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The CRC Press Computer Science Dictionary on software engineering (quite large!) includes the definitions from this taxonomy: see http://hpcn.dsi.unifi.it/~dictionary/

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