Any response to the software maintenance challenge must address the underlying problem of program understanding. One way of doing this is through reverse engineering. A successful approach to reverse engineering must be both exible and scalable. Most reverse engineering tools provide a xed palette of analysis, extraction, organization, representation, and selection techniques. This paper descri...

Many researchers have identified the potential of exploiting domain knowledge in a reverse engineering context. Features are abstractions that encapsulate knowledge of a problem domain and denote units of system behavior. As such, they represent a valuable resource for reverse engineering a system. The main body of feature-related reverse engineering research is concerned with feature identific...