6 E - CARES research project : Interactive , stakeholder - tailored re - engineering

The E-CARES project, which was initiated in 1999, is committed to researching reverse and re-engineering approaches of telecommunications software systems based on a graph transformation infrastructure. Ericsson’s AXE10 mobile-services switching center serves as a case study during the project. The progress of the E-CARES research project has been presented to this forum in the previous years. In this paper, we first briefly present the current status of the project (Section 6.2), in particular the developments in the last two years. Afterwards, we point to several ideas for future directions of the project in Section 6.3, particularly the use of reverse engineering repositories for communication, explorative re-engineering, and improved interoperability of reverse and re-engineering tool suites.