Investigating Reverse Engineering Technologies: The CAS Program Understanding Project (1994)
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@ARTICLE{Buss94investigatingreverse,
author = {E. Buss and R. De Mori and M. Gentleman and J. Henshaw and H. Johnson and K. Kontogiannis and E. Merlo and H. Müller and J. Mylopoulos and S. Paul and A. Prakash and M. Stanley and S. Tilley and J. Troster and K. Wong},
title = {Investigating Reverse Engineering Technologies: The CAS Program Understanding Project},
journal = {IBM SYSTEMS JOURNAL},
year = {1994},
volume = {33},
number = {3},
pages = {477--500}
}
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Abstract
Corporations face mounting maintenance and re-engineering costs for large legacy systems. Evolving over several years, these systems embody substantial corporate knowledge, including requirements, design decisions, and business rules. Such knowledge is difficult to recover after many years of operation, evolution, and personnel change. To address this problem, software engineers are spending an ever-growing amount of effort on program understanding and reverse engineering technologies. This article describes the scope and results of an on-going research project on program understanding undertaken by the IBM Software Solutions Toronto Laboratory Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS). The project involves, in addition to a team from CAS, five research groups working cooperatively on complementary reverse engineering approaches. All groups are using the source code of SQL/DS (a multi-million line relational database system) as the reference legacy system. The article also discusses the approa...
