*Reverse Engineering: A Roadmap*

HausiMueller, JensJahnke, Dennis Smith, PeggyStorey, Scott Tilley, and KennyWong 

In A, Finkelstein (ed.) _The Future of Software Engineering_, ACM Press, 2000.
(event colocated with ICSE 2000).


*Abstract*

By the early 1990s the need for ReEngineering LegacySystems
was already acute, but recently the demand has increased significantly
with the shift toward web-based user interfaces.
The demand by all business sectors to adapt their information
systems to the Web has created a tremendous need for
methods, tools, and infrastructures to evolve and exploit existing
applications efficiently and cost-effectively. Reverse
engineering has been heralded as one of the most promising
technologies to combat this legacy systems problem.
This paper presents a roadmap for reverse engineering research
for the first decade of the new millennium, building
on the ProgramUnderstanding theories of the 1980s and the
ReverseEngineering technology of the 1990s.
 
See http://www.softwaresystems.org/reverse.html (which includes many useful references) and
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/A.Finkelstein/fose/finalmuller.pdf

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