The Rigi Reverse Engineering Environment
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The Rigi environment is a mature research tool that provides functionality to reverse engineer software systems. With Rigi large systems can be analyzed, summarized, and documented. This is supported with the extraction of information from source code, an exchange format to store extracted information, analyses to transform and abstract information, and visualization of information in the form of typed, directed graphs. In this paper we describe Rigi’s main components and functionalities, and assess its impact on reverse engineering research and practice. Furthermore, we discuss Rigi’s architecture and motivate design decision that resulted in a decoupling of major functionalities and achieved tool extensibility, interoperability, and end-user programmability.
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