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Reverse Engineering�An Intermediate Step towards Re-engineering

Published on August 2011 by Namrata Sharma, Surendra Mishra
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National Technical Symposium on Advancements in Computing Technologies
Foundation of Computer Science USA
NTSACT - Number 3
August 2011
Authors: Namrata Sharma, Surendra Mishra
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Namrata Sharma, Surendra Mishra . Reverse Engineering�An Intermediate Step towards Re-engineering. National Technical Symposium on Advancements in Computing Technologies. NTSACT, 3 (August 2011), 26-30.

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author = { Namrata Sharma, Surendra Mishra },
title = { Reverse Engineering�An Intermediate Step towards Re-engineering },
journal = { National Technical Symposium on Advancements in Computing Technologies },
issue_date = { August 2011 },
volume = { NTSACT },
number = { 3 },
month = { August },
year = { 2011 },
issn = 0975-8887,
pages = { 26-30 },
numpages = 5,
url = { /proceedings/ntsact/number3/3198-ntst019/ },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
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Abstract

The object oriented software developers admit that thinking about object-oriented program understanding and comprehension to be relatively easier is not that easy. Programs are even more complex and difficult to comprehend, unless thoroughly documented. As we know that the entropy of software system increases with time unless specific work is executed to maintain or reduce it and system must change in order to remain useful. Reverse Engineering is aim towards understanding legacy system and program code without having suitable documentation. Reverse Engineering is a methodology that greatly reduces the time, effort and complexity involved in solving these issues providing efficient program understanding as an integral constituent of re-engineering paradigm. Reverse engineering produces a high-level representation of a software system from a low-level one. This paper discusses about reverse engineering of java code & recovers the design artifacts of a software system from its source code and related documentation.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Legacy code and system Program analysis Reverse engineering Re-engineering software engineering