0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 2 / $ 1 7 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 2 I E E E during the reengineering process. We propose tracing “all around”—from existing code to the legacy system’s design to its requirements during reverse engineering, and from the modified requirements to the new design and the new code during development of the successor system. In effect, this means integrating traceability during reverse engi...

Reverse Engineering refers to understanding an existing software system, and documenting the understanding in a desired format. Depending upon the purpose, which can be problem diagnosis, impact analysis, functional enhancements, or re-engineering to newer technologies or newer design, the reverse engineering artifacts vary in their definition, the abstraction level, and contents. Current state...

Since their inception in 1994, design patterns have been the subject of many papers. In the reverse-engineering community, several authors have proposed approaches to consider design patterns during reverseand re-engineering. However, it has been recently put forward in the community that it is difficult to compare previous approaches due to the diversity of vocabulary and the lack of a general...

Mobile platforms are becoming an increasingly important alternative for accessing web pages. Many Web pages are not suited to these platforms and need to be adapted, or rewritten from scratch. Adaptation can be made in two ways: either by a dynamic conversion or by a static reengineering. VAQUITA belongs to the second category by applying a model-based approach to reverse engineer web pages at ...

In this paper we present a proposal for a novel approach to facilitating transparent interoperability among reverse engineering tools. We characterize the architectural and operational characteristics of reverse engineering tools and demonstrate that many similarities exist among them. Taking full advantage of these similarities, we outline an approach for creating a domain ontology of operatio...