Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools , A.V. Aho and R. Sethi and J.D. Ullman
@Book{ aho.sethi.ea:compilers,
author = { A.V. Aho and R. Sethi and J.D. Ullman },
title = { Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools },
publisher = { Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley },
year = { 1985 },
class = {Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Static_Analysis }
}
A framework for reverse engineering DoD legacy information systems, P. Aiken and A. Muntz and R. Richards
@InProceedings{ aiken.muntz.ea:framework,
author = {P. Aiken and A. Muntz and R. Richards},
title = {A framework for reverse engineering {D}o{D} legacy
information systems},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st Working Conference on Reverse
Engineering },
pages = {180--191},
year = {1993},
note = { Gives an overview of the reverse engineering methodology
used inside the DoD for the reengineering of information
systems},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design,
Data-Centered_Program_Understanding}
}
Data Reverse Engineering: Slaying the Legacy Dragon, P. Aiken
@Book{ aiken:data,
title = {Data Reverse Engineering: Slaying the Legacy Dragon},
author = {P. Aiken},
publisher = {McGraw-Hill},
year = {1995},
note = { This is the first book describing the process of
recovering data architectures from existing information
systems and using it to develop a foundation for enterprise
integration and other reengineering efforts},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design,
Data-Centered_Program_Understanding}
}
Program View Generation and Change Analysis Using Attributed Dependency Graphs, Al-Zoubi, R. and Prakash, A.
@Article{ al-zoubi.prakash:program,
author = {Al-Zoubi, R. and Prakash, A.},
title = {Program View Generation and Change Analysis Using
Attributed Dependency Graphs},
journal = {Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice},
volume = {7},
number = {4},
pages = {239-262},
month = {July-August},
year = {1995},
abstract = {},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Code_Views,
Static_Analysis }
}
Software Change Analysis via Attributed Dependency Graphs, Al-Zoubi, R. and Prakash, A.
@TechReport{ al-zoubi.prakash:software,
author = {Al-Zoubi, R. and Prakash, A.},
title = {Software Change Analysis via Attributed Dependency
Graphs},
year = {1991},
month = {May},
number = {CSE-TR-95-91},
institution = {Department of EECS, University of Michigan},
class = {Alteration, Change_Impact,Software_Reverse_Engineering,
Reverse_Design, Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design,
Static_Analysis }
}
Attributed Graph-Based Representations for Software View Generation and Impact-of-Change Analysis, Ratib H. Al-Zoubi
@PhDThesis{ al-zoubi:attributed,
author = {Ratib H. Al-Zoubi},
title = {Attributed Graph-Based Representations for Software View
Generation and Impact-of-Change Analysis},
school = {The University of Michigan},
year = {1992},
abstract = {Great ref. on change analysis; mostly PITS. Good related
work info. Tool is called SCAN.},
class = {Alteration, Change_Impact,Software_Reverse_Engineering,
Reverse_Design, Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design,
Software_Reverse_Engineering,
Intermediate_Representations_of_Source_Code, Using_graphs}
}
Combining Static and Dynamic Analysis of Concurrent Programs, Frank D. Anger and Rita V. Rodriguez and Michal Young
@InProceedings{ anger.rodriguez.ea:combining,
author = {Frank D. Anger and Rita V. Rodriguez and Michal Young},
title = {Combining Static and Dynamic Analysis of Concurrent
Programs},
pages = {89-98},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Software
Maintenance ~1994},
year = {1994},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
month = sep,
abstract = {Concurrent systems are inherently more difficult to
analyze and visualize than sequential programs. The
difficulty of producing correct concurrent programs is
mirrored in maintenance as difficulty in extracting a
correct high-level model of task interactions and
predicting the effect of a modification to portions of a
system. The authors advocate a methodology that combines
static analysis of an abstract model with dynamic analysis
of source code. While the abstract model is amenable to
exhaustive analysis, dynamic analysis is capable checking
richer classes of specifications, and moreover provides a
check on the correctness of simplifications and assumptions
inherent in abstract models. We illustrate this approach by
combining two tools, the PAL system for compositional
reachability analysis and the FORESEE analysis tool for
temporal analysis of runtime traces, applied to a
simulation scenario.},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Dynamic_Analysis,
Dynamic_Data_Flow_Analysis }
}
Combining Static and Dynamic Analysis of Concurrent Programs , F.D. Anger and R.V. Rodriguez and M. Young
@InProceedings{ anger.rodriguez.ea:combining*1,
author = { F.D. Anger and R.V. Rodriguez and M. Young },
title = { Combining Static and Dynamic Analysis of Concurrent
Programs },
booktitle = { Proceedings of the International Conference on Software
Maintenance (ICSM~'94), {\rm (Victoria, B.C.; Sept. 19-23,
1994)}},
year = { September 1994 },
editor = { Hausi A. M\"{u}ller and Mari Georges },
pages = { 89-98 },
abstract = { },
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Static_Analysis,
Dynamic_Analysis},
keywords = {concurrency, parallelism, dynamic analysis, static
analysis}
}
Program Understanding and Maintenance with the CANTO environment, G. Antoniol and R. Fiutem and G. Lutteri and P. Tonella and S. Zanfei
@Unpublished{ antoniol.fiutem.ea:program,
author = {G. Antoniol and R. Fiutem and G. Lutteri and P. Tonella
and S. Zanfei},
title = {Program Understanding and Maintenance with the CANTO
environment},
year = {1998},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering,
Intermediate_Representations_of_Source_Code, Using_graphs,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Static_Analysis,
Static_Data_Flow_Analysis,
Recovery_of_Software_Architecture}
}
Enhancing Program Readability and Comprehensibility with Tools for Program Visualization, R. Baecker
@InProceedings{ baecker:enhancing,
author = {R. Baecker},
year = {April 1988},
pages = {356-366},
title = {Enhancing Program Readability and Comprehensibility with
Tools for Program Visualization},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on
Software Engineering},
abstract = {},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Code_Views }
}
Derivation and presentation of an Abstract Program Space for ADA, P.A. Bailes and P. Burnim and M. Chapman and D. Johnston
@InProceedings{ bailes.burnim.ea:derivation,
author = {P.A. Bailes and P. Burnim and M. Chapman and D. Johnston},
title = {Derivation and presentation of an Abstract Program Space
for ADA},
booktitle = {WPC~'96: Proceedings of the IEEE Fourth Workshop on
Program Comprehension, {\rm (Berlin, Germany; March 29-31,
1996)}},
year = {March 1996},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Code_Views}
}
Visualizing Software Systems , M.J. Baker and S.G. Eick
@InProceedings{ baker.eick:visualizing*1,
author = { M.J. Baker and S.G. Eick },
title = { Visualizing Software Systems },
booktitle = { Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on
Software Engineering {\rm (Sorrento, Italy; May 16-21,
1994)} },
publisher = { IEEE Computer Society Press },
year = { 1994 },
pages = { 59-67 },
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Code_Views}
}
Toward a Framework for Conceptual and Formal Outlines of Programs, F. Balmas
Available as
.
@InProceedings{ balmas:toward,
author = {F. Balmas},
title = {Toward a Framework for Conceptual and Formal Outlines of
Programs},
booktitle = {Fourth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society },
year = {1997},
pages = {226 - 235},
address = {Amsterdam, The Netherlands},
month = {October},
url = {http://www.ai.univ-paris8.fr/~fb/},
abstract = {In this paper, we propose to re-document programs with
outlines. The interest of outlines is that they allow to
contract, as in a zoom, the amount of information necessary
to understand programs, easing walking through them to
localize given computations or to identify the role of a
piece of code. As a first stage toward a framework of
program outlines, we have defined a model suited to the
representation of computations performed within loops. The
main feature of our outlines is that they are both formal
and conceptual: they are represented within frames which
are semantically equivalent to the outlined loops and help
understanding what is computed by revealing how this is
computed. In order to re-document loops, we implemented a
system, PRISME, able to automatically construct outlines of
a subset of Lisp looping functions. PRISME allowed us to
validate the implementation of our model. Currently, we use
it intensively to experiment the role of outlines for
debugging and reverse specification of programs. },
keywords = {re-documentation, program representation, outlines},
class = {Knowledge-Based_Concept_Assignment
Software_Reverse_Engineering Others Reverse_Design
Functional_Abstraction
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design
Program_Plan_Assignment_by_Parsing
Intermediate_Representations_of_Source_Code }
}
Ada System Dependency Analyzer Tool, Grace Baratta-Perez and Richard L. Conn and Charles A. Finnell and Thomas J. Walsh
@Article{ baratta-perez.conn.ea:ada,
author = {Grace {Baratta-Perez} and Richard L. Conn and Charles A.
Finnell and Thomas J. Walsh},
title = {Ada System Dependency Analyzer Tool},
journal = {Computer},
month = {February},
year = {1994},
volume = {27},
number = {2},
pages = {49-55},
abstract = { Describes the Ada SDA: a simple tool that parses Ada into
an OO-AST and does simple analysis. Focus in on two areas:
portability checks (e.g., what pragma are used, when
non-Ada routines are called, such as X/Motif), and
"architectural" analysis: what subunits and packages are
used, what is the compilation dependency order, etc. Fairly
pedestrian analysis. . The ability to imbed diverse systems
within an application, particularly COTS software, often
adds to architectural complexity. This becomes more
apparent when software must be ported. It is then that the
full consequences of unweildly software architecture are
realized. . A major thrust of modern SE mthods, languages,
and tools is to promote software visibility and to present
information about the underlying software architecture.
Architecture determines whether a system can evolve, be
enhanced, or be reused in a cost-effective way. . With
large, complex software systems, automated tools are
indispensible for identifying the architectural components,
the structure that connects them, and other subtle
dependencies. (This is Re-DITL, my work.) . The Ada SDA is
a "software architecture analysis tool" (nice term to use).
. The SDA tool identifies Ada source code dependencies on
COTS products such as operating systems, compilers, the X
Window System, and routines written in other languages, and
can thus predict software portability and reliability. . (I
could do similar "name filtering" using scripts in Rigi.) .
The SDA merges two key tecknologies: compiler construction
and OOA, OOD, and OO-implementation. . They use ayacc and
aflex, Ada parsers and scanners resp. from UC Irvine's
Arcadia project. (NB: These are PD tools; snarf!) . They
allow the user to specify what they want extracted from the
Ada source code (extraction flexibility!) via command-line
options. . Identifying source code dependencies: . Bit of a
misonomer. . Identify potential portability stumbling
blocks. . A "taxonomy" of "portability errors/rules" are
codified; they filter the source looking for instances of
rule violations. (Similar to Joel's DF/FQ; I could do it
using scripts => App area) . Ada predefined types . Ada
representation clauses . Interfaces to non-Ada routines .
Pragmas . Unidentified withed units . Machine code
statements . X Windows and Motif interfaces .
("Portability" is a good example of an application of
scripting) . Analyzing Ada source code architecture .
Again, a bit of a misnomer (only more so this time) . File
statistics (number of files, library unites, comments, ...)
. Subunits . Library units and dependencies . Compilation
order . Exceptions . Reports are vt100-style tabular
format. Not much tweaking by the users on report format or
content. . "The Ada SDA provides visibility into the
architecture of software systems and an indication of the
software's portability and reliability." . This tool may
become PD in the future. },
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Static_Analysis }
}
Program and interface slicing for reverse engineering, J. Beck and D. Eichmann
@InProceedings{ beck.eichmann:program,
author = {J. Beck and D. Eichmann},
title = {Program and interface slicing for reverse engineering},
pages = {509--519},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on
Software Engineering },
year = {1993},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
month = apr,
abstract = {Reverse engineering involves a great deal of effort in
comprehension of the current implementation of a software
system and the ways in which it differs from the original
design. Automated support tools are critical to the success
of such efforts. Wh show how program slicing techniques can
be employed to assist in the comprehension of large
software systems, through traditional slicing techniques at
the statement level, and through a new technique, interface
slicing, at the module level.},
note = {Describes the use of program slicing for the reverse
engineering of Ada packages},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Static_Analysis,
Static_Data_Flow_Analysis, Program_Slicing}
}
Program and Interface Slicing for Reverse Engineering , J. Beck and D. Eichmann
@InProceedings{ beck.eichmann:program*1,
author = { J. Beck and D. Eichmann },
title = { Program and Interface Slicing for Reverse Engineering },
booktitle = { WCRE~'93: Proceedings of the 1993 Working Conference on
Reverse Engineering, {\rm (Baltimore, Maryland; May 21-23,
1993)}},
year = { May 1993 },
pages = { 54-63 },
publisher = { IEEE Computer Society Press (Order Number 3780-02) },
abstract = { },
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Program_Slicing }
}
The Role of Testing and Dynamic Analysis in Program Comprehension Supports, Benedusi, P. and Benvenuto, V. and Tomacelli, L.
@InProceedings{ benedusi.benvenuto.ea:role,
author = {Benedusi, P. and Benvenuto, V. and Tomacelli, L.},
title = {The Role of Testing and Dynamic Analysis in Program
Comprehension Supports},
editor = {Fadini, Bruno and Rajlich, Vaclav},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Second Workshop on Program
Comprehension},
year = {1993},
month = {July},
pages = {149-158},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Dynamic_Analysis,
Alteration, Change_Test }
}
Hypermedia as a Tool to Aid Large Scale reuse, Ted J. Biggerstaff
@TechReport{ biggerstaff:hypermedia,
author = {Ted J. Biggerstaff},
title = {Hypermedia as a Tool to Aid Large Scale reuse},
institution = {MCC},
year = {1987},
type = {Technical Report},
number = {STP-202-87},
month = jul,
abstract = {This paper argues that the largest payoff of reuse is in
the reuse of large scale components. In order to make such
reuse feasible, the component to be reused must be
accompanied by a model that aids the software engineering
in understanding the component to be reused. We illustrate
the use of a hypermedia tool in developing such a model and
present what we have discovered in the course of building
an example of such a model.},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Hypertext}
}
The Application of Program Slicing to Regression Testing, David Binkley
@Article{ binkley:application,
author = {David Binkley},
title = {The Application of Program Slicing to Regression Testing},
journal = {Information and Software Technology},
year = {1998},
key = {Program Slicing},
volume = {40},
number = {11-12},
pages = {583-594},
month = {November},
note = {Special issue on program slicing},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Program_Slicing}
}
Using semantic differencing to reduce the cost of regression testing, D. Binkley
@InProceedings{ binkley:using,
title = {Using semantic differencing to reduce the cost of
regression testing},
author = {D. Binkley},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Software
Maintenance ~1992},
pages = {41--50},
year = {1992},
note = { Gives an algorithm using dependence graphs and program
slicing to partition a modified program in parts with
affected program behaviour and parts with unaffected
behaviour. Only the parts with affected behaviour have to
be re-tested},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Program_Slicing}
}
Object-Oriented Modeling and Design for Database Applications, michael blaha and william premerlani
@Book{ blaha.premerlani:object-oriented,
author = {michael blaha and william premerlani},
title = {Object-Oriented Modeling and Design for Database
Applications},
publisher = {Prentice Hall},
year = {1998},
abstract = {Chapter 20 is about reverse engineering of databases.},
keywords = {UML, model, database, reverse engineering},
note = {Chapter 20 of the book provides a simple process for
reverse engineering of hierarchical, network, and
relational databases.},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering
Data-Centered_Program_Understanding Reverse_Design
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design }
}
Interprocedural analysis for program comprehension by specialization, Sandrine Blazy and Philippe Facon
@InProceedings{ blazy.facon:interprocedural,
author = {Sandrine Blazy and Philippe Facon},
title = {Interprocedural analysis for program comprehension by
specialization},
booktitle = {WPC~'96: Proceedings of the IEEE Fourth Workshop on
Program Comprehension, {\rm (Berlin, Germany; March 29-31,
1996)}},
year = {March 1996},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Static_Analysis }
}
FAST: A Second Generation Program Analysis System, Browne, J.C. and Johnson, D.B.
@InProceedings{ browne.johnson:fast,
author = {Browne, J.C. and Johnson, D.B.},
title = {{FAST}: A Second Generation Program Analysis System},
booktitle = {ICSE'3: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on
Software Engineering, {\rm (Atlanta, Georgia; May 10-12,
1978)}},
year = {May 1978},
pages = {142-148},
abstract = {},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Static_Analysis }
}
Conditioned Program Slicing, Gerardo Canfora and Aniello Cimitile and Andrea De Lucia
@Article{ canfora.cimitile.ea:conditioned,
author = {Gerardo Canfora and Aniello Cimitile and Andrea De Lucia},
title = {Conditioned Program Slicing},
journal = {Information and Software Technology},
year = {1998},
key = {Program Slicing},
volume = {40},
number = {11-12},
pages = {595-608},
month = {November},
note = {Special issue on program slicing},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Program_Slicing}
}
A Logic-Based Approach to Reverse Engineering Tools Production, G. Canfora and Aniello Cimitile and G. de Carlini
@Article{ canfora.cimitile.ea:logic-based,
key = {Canfora et al.},
author = {G. Canfora and Aniello Cimitile and G. de Carlini},
title = {A Logic-Based Approach to Reverse Engineering Tools
Production},
year = {1992},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering},
pages = {1053--1064},
volume = {18},
number = {12},
month = dec,
abstract = {This paper analyzes difficulties arising in the use of
documents produces by Reverse Engineering tools. With
reference to inter-modula data flow analysis for Pascal
software systems, an interactive and evolutionary is
proposed. The tool is based on: i) the production of
inter-modular data flow information by static analysis of
code; ii) its representaton in a Prolog program dictionary;
iii) a Prolog abstractor that allows the specific queries
to be answered.},
location = {CMU E \&{} S Library},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering,
Intermediate_Representations_of_Source_Code,
Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Static_Analysis,
Static_Data_Flow_Analysis}
}
Petri Nets and Reverse Engineering in Concurrent Environments, G. Canfora and Aniello Cimitile and De Carlini, Ugo
@InProceedings{ canfora.cimitile.ea:petri,
author = {G. Canfora and Aniello Cimitile and De Carlini, Ugo},
title = {Petri Nets and Reverse Engineering in Concurrent
Environments},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on
Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering SEKE' 91},
year = {1991},
pages = {213-223},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Code_Views}
}
A Reverse Engineering Process for Design Level Document Production from ADA Code, G. Canfora and A. Cimitile and U. De Carlini
@Article{ canfora.cimitile.ea:reverse*2,
title = {A Reverse Engineering Process for Design Level Document
Production from ADA Code},
author = {G. Canfora and A. Cimitile and U. De Carlini},
journal = {Information and Software Technology},
volume = {35},
number = {1},
pages = {23--34},
year = {1993},
note = { A reverse engineering process for producing design level
documents by static analysis of ADA code is described. This
is achieved via concurrent data flow diagrams describing
the task structure and the data flow between tasks.},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Static_Analysis,
Process_Models_for_Reverse_Design}
}
The C Information Abstraction System, Y-F. Chen and M.Y. Nishimoto and C.V. Ramamoorthy
@Article{ chen.nishimoto.ea:c,
author = {Y-F. Chen and M.Y. Nishimoto and C.V. Ramamoorthy},
title = {The {C} Information Abstraction System},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering},
volume = {16},
number = {3},
pages = {325-334},
year = {1990},
note = { A system for analyzing program structures is described.
The applications of this system include: generation of
graphical views, subsystem extraction, program layering,
dead code elimination, and binding analysis},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Static_Analysis}
}
An integrated method for effective behaviour analysis of distributed systems, S. C. Cheung and J. Kramer
@InProceedings{ cheung.kramer:integrated,
author = {S. C. Cheung and J. Kramer},
title = {An integrated method for effective behaviour analysis of
distributed systems},
pages = {309--322},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on
Software Engineering },
year = {1994},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
month = may,
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Static_Analysis,
Static_Data_Flow_Analysis}
}
TuringTool: A User Interface to Aid in the Software Maintenance Task, J.R. Cordy and N.L. Eliot and M.G. Robertson
@Article{ cordy.eliot.ea:turingtool,
author = {J.R. Cordy and N.L. Eliot and M.G. Robertson},
title = {TuringTool: A User Interface to Aid in the Software
Maintenance Task},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering},
volume = {16},
number = {3},
pages = {294-301},
year = {1990},
note = { In this paper the approach of viewing a program in a
structured way is advocated. With the aid of queries the
user can influence the view of the program and can,
therefore, get a better idea of what the program is doing.
Things that are not important for a certain view are
elided, but can be accessed by clicking on them---the
elided text becomes visual. The program can also be edited
with this tool},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Code_Views}
}
Enhancing Code for Readability and Comprehension Using SGML, D.D. Cowan and D.M. Germ\'an and C.J.P. Lucena and A. von Staa
@InProceedings{ cowan.german.ea:enhancing,
key = {Cowan et. al, 1994},
author = {D.D. Cowan and D.M. Germ\'an and C.J.P. Lucena and A. von
Staa},
title = {Enhancing Code for Readability and Comprehension Using
SGML},
pages = {181-190},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Software
Maintenance ~1994},
year = {1994},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
month = sep,
abstract = {Reading and understanding programs is a key activity in
software reengineering, development, and maintenance. The
ability of people to understand programs is directly
related to the ease with which the source code and
documentation can be read. Thus, enhancements to the style
of presentation should heighten this comprehensibility. The
authors describe methods that use markup laguages such as
SGML to embed information about the syntax and semantics of
a program in the program code, and then show how these can
be used to enhance its presentation style. The authors also
briefly discuss the extension of these markup language
concepts to text databases, and indicate how they can
support various structural views of the code through
browsing techniques associcated with database queries.},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design,
Reformatting_and_Markup_Languages}
}
Reverse engineering of control structure diagrams, J. Cross
@InProceedings{ cross:reverse,
author = {J. Cross},
title = {Reverse engineering of control structure diagrams},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st Working Conference on Reverse
Engineering },
pages = {107--116},
year = {1993},
note = { Describes a tool for the automatic generation of a new
graphical representation for Ada software (Control
Structure Diagrams). These diagrams aim at improving the
comprehension of Ada programs and can potentially replace
the original source code},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Static_Analysis,
Code_Views}
}
Identification and extraction of ``domain independent'' components in large programs, F. Cutillo and P. Fiore and G. Visaggio
@InProceedings{ cutillo.fiore.ea:identification,
author = {F. Cutillo and P. Fiore and G. Visaggio},
title = {Identification and extraction of ``domain independent''
components in large programs},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st Working Conference on Reverse
Engineering },
pages = {83--92},
year = {1993},
note = { Uses program slicing to extract components from COBOL
programs by means of Viasoft's tools INSIGHT, SMARTDOC and
RENAISSANCE},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Program_Slicing}
}
Efficiently Computing Static Single Assignment Form and the Control Dependence Graph, Ron Cytron and Jeanne Ferrante and Barry K. Rosen and Mark N. Wegman and F. Kenneth Zadeck
@Article{ cytron.ferrante.ea:efficiently,
author = {Ron Cytron and Jeanne Ferrante and Barry K. Rosen and Mark
N. Wegman and F. Kenneth Zadeck},
title = {Efficiently Computing Static Single Assignment Form and
the Control Dependence Graph},
journal = {ACS Transaction on Programming Languages and Systems},
year = {1991},
volume = {13},
number = {4},
pages = {451-490},
month = {October},
abstract = {In optimizing compilers, data structure choices directly
influence the power and efficiency of practical program
optimization. A poor choice of data structure can inhibit
optimization or slow compilation to the point that advanced
optimization features become undesirable. Recently, static
single assignment form and the control dependence graph
have been proposed to represent data flow and control flow
propertiee of programs. Each of these previously unrelated
techniques lends efficiency and power to a useful class of
program optimization. Although both of these structures are
attractive, the difficulty of their construction and their
potential size have discouraged their use. We present new
algorithms that efficiently compute these data structures
for arbitrary control flow graphs. The algorithms use
dominance frontiers, a new concept that may have other
applications. We also give analytical and experimental
evidence that all of these data structures are usually
linear in the size of the original program. This paper thus
presents strong evidence that these structures can be of
practical use in optimization.},
keywords = {algorithms languages control dependence control flow graph
def-use chain dominator optimizing compilers ssa},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering Static_Data_Flow_Analysis
Reverse_Design Static_Control_Flow_Analysis
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design Static_Analysis }
}
Building Documentation Generators, Deursen, A. van and T. Kuipers
Available as
.
@InProceedings{ deursen.kuipers:building,
author = {Deursen, A. van and T. Kuipers},
title = {Building Documentation Generators},
booktitle = {Proceedings International Conference on Software
Maintenance},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
year = {1999},
pages = {40--49},
url = {http://www.cwi.nl/~arie/papers/},
abstract = {In order to maintain the consistency between sources and
documentation, while at the same time providing
documentation at the design level, it is necessary to
generate documentation from sources in such a way that it
can be integrated with hand-written documentation. In order
to simplify the construction of documentation generators,
we introduce island grammars, which only define those
syntactic structures needed for (re)documentation purposes.
We explain how they can be used to obtain various forms of
documentation, such as data dependency diagrams for
mainframe batch jobs. Moreover, we discuss how the derived
information can be made available via a hypertext
structure. We conclude with an industrial case study in
which a 600,000 LOC COBOL legacy system is redocumented
using the techniques presented in the paper. },
note = {Redocumentation, legacy systems, documentation generation,
source code analysis, island grammars},
class = {Hypertex Reverse_Design
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design
Software_Reverse_Engineering }
}
LaSSIE: A knowledge-based software information system, P. Devanbu and R.J. Bachman and P.G. Selfridge and B.W. Ballard
@Article{ devanbu.bachman.ea:lassie,
author = {P. Devanbu and R.J. Bachman and P.G. Selfridge and B.W.
Ballard},
title = {La{SSIE}: A knowledge-based software information system},
journal = {Communications of the ACM},
volume = {34},
number = {5},
pages = {35-49},
year = {1991},
note = { A system called LaSSIE (Large Software System Information
Environment) is presented. It incorporates a large
knowledge base, a semantic retrieval algorithm based on
formal inference, and a powerful user interface
incorporating a graphical browser and a natural language
parser. The system is intended to help programmers find
useful information about large software systems},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering,
Software_Reverse_Engineering_Tools, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Static_Analysis}
}
LaSSIE: A Knowledge-based Software Information System, P. Devanbu and R. J. Brachman and P. G. Selfridge and B. W. Ballard
@InProceedings{ devanbu.brachman.ea:lassie,
author = {P. Devanbu and R. J. Brachman and P. G. Selfridge and B.
W. Ballard},
title = {{LaSSIE}: A Knowledge-based Software Information System},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on
Software Engineering },
pages = {249--261},
month = mar,
year = {1990},
abstract = {The authors discuss the important problem of invisibility
that is inherent in the task of developing large software
systems. It is pointed out that there are no direct
solutions to this problem; however, there are several
categories of systems-relational code analyzers, reuse
librarians, and project management databases-that can be
seen as addressing aspects of the invisibility problem. It
is argued that these systems do not adequately deal with
certain important aspects of the problem of
invisibility-semantic proliferation, multiple views, and
the need for intelligent indexing. A system called LaSSIE,
which uses knowledge representation and reasoning
technology to address each of these three issues directly
and thereby help with the invisibility problem, has been
built. The authors conclude with an evaluation of the
system and a discussion of open problems and ongoing
work.},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Code_Views,
Knowledge-Based_Concept_Assignment}
}
Generating Testing and Analysis Tools, P.T. Devanbu and D.R. Rosenblum and A.L. Wolf
@Article{ devanbu.rosenblum.ea:generating,
key = {DRW96},
author = {P.T. Devanbu and D.R. Rosenblum and A.L. Wolf},
title = {Generating Testing and Analysis Tools},
journal = {ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology},
year = {1996},
volume = {5},
number = {1},
pages = {42-62},
note = {This article describes tools for analysing C/C++ programs
for programming understanding. These tools are generated
and support a procedural mechanism to retrieve information
from the C/C++ programs.},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design,
Source_Code_Queries}
}
GENOA - A Customizable, language- and Front-end Independent Code Analyzer, P. T. Devanbu
@InProceedings{ devanbu:genoa,
author = {P. T. Devanbu},
title = {{GENOA} - {A} Customizable, language- and Front-end
Independent Code Analyzer},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on
Software Engineering },
pages = {307--317},
month = may,
year = {1992},
abstract = {Programmers working on large software systems spend a
great deal of time examining code and trying to understand
it. Code analysis tools (e.g. cross referencing tools such
as CIA and Cscope) can be very helpful in this process.
This paper describes GENOA, an application generator that
can produce a whole range of useful code analysis tools.
GENOA is designed to be language- and front-end
independent; it can be interfaced to any front-end for any
language that produces an attributed parse tree, simply by
writing an interface specification. While GENOA programs
can perform arbitrary analyses on the parse tree, the GENOA
language has special, compact iteration operators that are
tuned for expressing simple, polynomial time analysis
programs. It describes the system, provides several
practical examples, and presents complexity and
expressivity results for the above-mentioned sublanguage of
GENOA.},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Static_Analysis,
Static_Data_Flow_Analysis}
}
Wartungsunterstützung in heterogenen Sprachumgebungen, Ein Überblick zum Projekt GUPRO, J. Ebert and R. Gimnich and A. Winter
Available as
compressed postscript.
@InCollection{ ebert.gimnich.ea:wartungsunterstützung,
author = {J. Ebert and R. Gimnich and A. Winter},
title = {Wartungsunterstützung in heterogenen Sprachumgebungen, Ein
Überblick zum Projekt GUPRO},
booktitle = {Softwarewartung und Reengineering - Erfahrungen und
Entwicklungen},
publisher = {Gabler},
year = {1996},
editor = {F. Lehner},
pages = {263-275},
address = {Wiesbaden},
url = {http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~ist/retrieve/GUPRO.Regensburg.ps.gz}
,
abstract = {Wirtschaftliche Wartung und Weiterentwicklung von
Anwendungssoftware setzt ein grundsätzliches Verstehen
vorhandener Quelltexte voraus. Diese sind oft wenig
strukturiert, schwach kommentiert und in unterschiedlichen
Umgebungen entstanden. Im Projekt GUPRO - Eine Generische
Umgebung zum Programmverstehen - wird ein
benutzerkonfigurierbarer Generator zur Erzeugung
sprachübergreifender Programmverstehenswerkzeuge
entwickelt, die das Nachvollziehen und Verstehen auch
heterogener Software beliebiger Sprachen
(Programmiersprachen, Anfragesprachen, Sprachen der "4.
Generation") unterstützen. Hierzu dienen Anfrage- und
Browsing-Werkzeuge, die über eine gemeinsame, graphbasierte
Datenstruktur integriert sind.},
keywords = {metacare, program understanding},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering Using_graphs
Source_Code_Queries Reverse_Design
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design
Intermediate_Representations_of_Source_Code Static_Analysis
}
}
A Generic System to Support Multi-Level Understanding of Heterogeneous Software, J. Ebert and M. Kamp and A. Winter
Available as
postscript.
@TechReport{ ebert.kamp.ea:generic,
author = {J. Ebert and M. Kamp and A. Winter},
title = {A Generic System to Support Multi-Level Understanding of
Heterogeneous Software},
organization = {Universität Koblenz-Landau, Institut für Informatik},
year = {1997},
type = {Fachbericht Informatik},
number = {6/97},
address = {Koblenz},
url = {http://www.uni-koblenz.de/fb4/publikationen/gelbereihe/RR-6-97.ps}
,
abstract = {This paper presents the ideas and the implementation of a
generic support system for understanding heterogenous
software. GUPRO provides a seamless approach for modeling,
representing and analysing software. The focus of GUPRO is
its adaptability to (almost) arbitrary kinds of source
text. Software of different programming and description
languages can be represented uniformly by a homogeneous
internal representation any level of granularity. The
relevant concepts of the software are described by the
maintenance engineer with regard to his or her current
program understanding task in a concept model using
EER-like graphical language. Then parsers are generated to
transform source code into a TGraph representation which is
an instance of the model. A parser description language has
been developed which supports graph creation according to a
concept model. A source language independent query language
allows the computation of arbitrary reports on the software
graphs. The properties of graphs can be used for easily
querying even complex structural relationships between
instances of the modeled software concepts. The components
of the system are integrated in a framework architecture
under a common graphical user interface.},
keywords = {metacare, program understanding, GUPRO},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering Using_graphs
Source_Code_Queries Reverse_Design
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design
Intermediate_Representations_of_Source_Code Static_Analysis
}
}
Dynamic Dependence in Term Rewriting Systems and its Application to Program Slicing, John Field and Frank Tip
@Article{ field.tip:dynamic,
author = {John Field and Frank Tip},
title = {Dynamic Dependence in Term Rewriting Systems and its
Application to Program Slicing},
journal = {Information and Software Technology},
year = {1998},
key = {Program Slicing},
volume = {40},
number = {11-12},
pages = {609-634},
month = {November},
note = {Special issue on program slicing},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Program_Slicing}
}
Redocumenting Software Systems Using Hypertext Technology, N. T. Fletton and M. Munro
@InProceedings{ fletton.munro:redocumenting,
author = {N. T. Fletton and M. Munro},
title = {Redocumenting Software Systems Using Hypertext
Technology},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Software
Maintenance ~1988},
year = {1988},
pages = {54-59},
organization = {IEEE},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Hypertext}
}
Double Iterative Framework for Flow-Sensitive Interprocedural Data Flow Analysis, Istv\'an Forg\'acs
@Article{ forgacs:double,
key = {Forgacs, 1994},
author = {Istv\'an Forg\'acs},
title = {Double Iterative Framework for Flow-Sensitive
Interprocedural Data Flow Analysis},
journal = { ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and
Methodology},
year = {1994},
volume = {3},
number = {1},
pages = {29-55},
month = jan,
abstract = {Compiler optimization, parallel processing, data flow
testing, and symbolic debugging can benefit from
interprocedural data flow analysis. However, the live,
reaching definition, and most summary data flow problems
are theoretically intractable in the interprocedural case.
A method is presented that reduces the exponential time
bound with the help of an algorithm that solves the problem
in polynomial time. Either the resulting sets contain
precise results or the missing (or additional) results do
not cause any problems during their use. The authors also
introduce the double iterative framework, where one
procedure is processed at a time. The results of the
intraprocedural analysis of procedures the propagates along
the edges of the call multi-graph. In this way the intra
and interprocedural analyses are executed alternately until
there is no change in any result set. This method can be
applied to any known interprocedural data flow problem.
Here the algorithms for the kill, live variables, and
reaching definitions problems are presented. Besides for
precision, the algorithms can be used for very large
programs, and since inter and intraprocedural analyses can
be optimized separately, the method is fast as well.},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Static_Analysis,
Static_Data_Flow_Analysis}
}
The FAPU Workbench, Horst Friedrich and Reiner Witschurke
@InProceedings{ friedrich.witschurke:fapu,
author = {Horst Friedrich and Reiner Witschurke},
title = {The FAPU Workbench},
booktitle = {1st European Conference on Software Maintenance and
Reengineering 97},
month = mar,
year = {1997},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
abstract = {Before software can be adapted to changing economical,
organizational and technical conditions, it has to be
ABunderstoodBB. Understanding involves obtaining all the
information belonging to the application system in question
by means of analysis, interpretation and evaluation of the
software's structures (the individual programs of the
various program systems plus existing documentation) and of
the context and exact nature of its use (e.g. business
processes and workflows). Within a program of research into
tools supporting application understanding, the Fraunhofer
ISST has developed a prototype of the FAPU Workbench (FAPU
- FORTRAN Application and Program Understanding). A special
feature of FAPU is that it distinguishes between program
information and non-program information and enables
interactive linking within and between these two types of
information. FAPU can handle files consisting of a mixture
of programs in different languages, control commands and
data. Its robust parser can analyse a wide range of FORTRAN
dialects and deal with unknown constructs. The location of
comments within source code is preserved, new comments can
be added and existing ones modified. The analysis is always
performed with respect to a platform model containing
information about the computer type, the operating system,
and the compiler. As well as many analysis options and the
synchronization of their presentation, FAPU also enables
visualization of COMMON blocks. This paper presents the
tool developed at the Fraunhofer ISST. },
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Static_Analysis}
}
Reengineering Class Hierarchies using Concept Analysis, G. Snelting, and F. Tip
@InProceedings{ g-snelting.tip:reengineering,
author = {G. Snelting, and F. Tip},
title = {Reengineering Class Hierarchies using Concept Analysis},
booktitle = {Proc. SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software
Engineering},
publisher = {ACM},
year = {1998},
key = {Concept Analysis},
class = {Inhertiance_Hierarchies_Restructuring
Software_Reverse_Engineering Static_Data_Flow_Analysis
Reverse_Design Re-Design Static_Control_Flow_Analysis
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design Alteration
Static_Analysis }
}
Using Program Slicing in Software Maintenance, Keith Brian Gallagher and James R. Lyle
@Article{ gallagher.lyle:using,
author = {Keith Brian Gallagher and James R. Lyle},
title = {Using Program Slicing in Software Maintenance},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering},
year = {1991},
volume = {17},
number = {8},
pages = {751-761},
month = aug,
abstract = {Program slicing, introduces by Weiser, is known to help
programmers in understanding foreign code and in debugging.
We apply program slicing to the maintenance problem by
extending the notion of a program slice (that orginally
required both a variable and line number) to a
decomposition slice, one that captures all computation on a
given variable; i.e., is independent of line numbers. Using
the lattice of single variable decomposition slices ordered
by set inclusion, we demonstrate how to form a slice-based
decomposition for programs. We are then able to delineate
the effects of a proposed change by isolating those effects
in a single component of the decomposition. This gives
maintainers a straightforward technique for determining
those statements and variables which may be modified in a
component and those which may not. Using the decomposition,
we provide a set of principles to prohibit changes which
will interfere with unmodified components. These
semantically consistent changes can then be merged back
into the original program in linear time. Moreover, the
maintainer can test the changes in the component with the
assurance that there are no linkages into other components.
Thus decomposition slicing induces a new software
maintenance process model which eliminates the need for
regression testing.},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Static_Analysis,
Static_Data_Flow_Analysis, Program_Slicing}
}
Using program slicing in software maintenance, K. Gallagher and J. Lyle
@Article{ gallagher.lyle:using*1,
title = {Using program slicing in software maintenance},
author = {K. Gallagher and J. Lyle},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering},
volume = {17},
number = {8},
pages = {751--761},
year = {1991},
note = { In this paper the technique of program slicing is used to
facilitate maintenance of software systems by extending the
notion of program slice to a so-called decomposition slice
(a slice that captures all computation on a given
variable)},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Program_Slicing}
}
Improving Software Maintenance Using System-Level Reverse Engineering, Keith D. Gillis and David G. Wright
@InProceedings{ gillis.wright:improving,
author = {Keith D. Gillis and David G. Wright},
title = {Improving Software Maintenance Using System-Level Reverse
Engineering},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Software
Maintenance ~1990},
year = {1990},
pages = {84-90},
organization = {IEEE},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
abstract = {Success in the software maintenance environment depends
upon the ability to read and comprehend existing source
code. A high level of comprehension is becoming more and
more more difficult to achieve as systems increase in
overall size and complexity. The described Fortran Reverse
Engineering software package programmatically analyzes
existing Fortran source code and generates complete
Structure Charts, and Module Specifications in a CASE
environment. The user can also select options to create
software trees and a variety of cross reference-tables. The
use of these objects can increase programmer productivity
by providing system-level details in a manner that can be
easily understood. They also aid in the software
maintenance process by providing the design baseline for
future software modifications and adds documentation of the
software set. Integrating a system-level reverse
engineering utility tool into a CASE enfivonment is just
one step toward improving programmer productivity and
increasing success in the software maintenance process.},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Code_Views}
}
Using Automatic Program Decomposition Techniques in Software Maintenance Tools, Rajeev Gopal and Stephan R. Schach
@InProceedings{ gopal.schach:using,
author = {Rajeev Gopal and Stephan R. Schach},
title = {Using Automatic Program Decomposition Techniques in
Software Maintenance Tools},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Software
Maintenance ~1989},
year = {1989},
pages = {132-141},
organization = {IEEE},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
abstract = {Program decomposition can assist maintenance programmers
in all three phses of maintenance, namely comprehension,
modification and debugging. Visibility flow graphs are
introduced to represent the information about the static
semantics of a program. Using static analysis of programs,
it is possible to approximate their dynamic behaviour. More
precise analysis is possible if the program is monitored
during its execution. For dynamic semantics, dependence
relations are used that reflect the dependency of
statements on the input value of variables and of the
output value of variables on the statements. These
relations are generated both at static analysis time, and
also during program execution. Some sample sessions with a
prototype program analyzer for a subset of Ada are also
included.},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering,
Intermediate_Representations_of_Source_Code, Using_graphs,
Reverse_Design, Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design,
Static_Analysis, Static_Data_Flow_Analysis,
Dyanmic_Analysis, Dynamic_Data_Flow_Analysis}
}
An approach to regression testing using slicing, R. Gupta and M. Harrold and M. Soffa
@InProceedings{ gupta.harrold.ea:approach,
title = {An approach to regression testing using slicing},
author = {R. Gupta and M. Harrold and M. Soffa},
pages = {299--308},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Software
Maintenance ~1992},
year = {1992},
note = { A new approach to data flow based regression testing is
described that uses program slicing algorithms to detect
definition-use pairs that are affected by a program change.
The advantage of this approach is that neither the data
flow history nor a recomputation of data flow is
necessary},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Program_Slicing}
}
Contribution to a theory of database reverse engineering, J.-L. Hainaut and M. Chandelon and C. Tonneau and M. Joris
@InProceedings{ hainaut.chandelon.ea:contribution,
author = {J.-L. Hainaut and M. Chandelon and C. Tonneau and M.
Joris},
title = {Contribution to a theory of database reverse engineering},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st Working Conference on Reverse
Engineering },
pages = {161--170},
year = {1993},
note = {Gives a methodology for recovering the conceptual schema
of databases. Illustrated with various COBOL examples},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design,
Data-Centered_Program_Understanding}
}
Automatic Extraction of Executable program subsets by simultaneous dynamic program slicing, R.J. Hall
@Article{ hall:automatic,
author = {R.J. Hall},
title = {Automatic Extraction of Executable program subsets by
simultaneous dynamic program slicing},
journal = {Automated Software Engineering},
publisher = {Kluwer Academic Publishers},
volume = {2},
year = {1995},
pages = {33-53},
note = { An algorithm to automatically extract a correctly
functioning subset of the code of a system is presented.
The technique is based on computing a simultaneous dynamic
program slice of the code for a set of representative
inputs. Experiments show that the algorithm produces
significantly smaller subsets than with existing methods},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Dynamic_Analysis,
Program_Slicing}
}
Generalized Behavior-based Retrieval, Robert J. Hall
@InProceedings{ hall:generalized,
author = {Robert J. Hall},
title = {Generalized Behavior-based Retrieval},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on
Software Engineering },
year = {1993},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
month = apr,
abstract = {The user of a large reuse library faces the formidable
discovery problem of searching for all and only those
components useful in solving the current programming task.
This paper describes a retrieval technique that generalizes
the simple idea of executing each component on test inputs,
reporting those that compute correct outputs. One
generalization improves recall by considering small
programs constructible from library components, rather than
just single components. Furthermore, functional modeling of
components allows the technique to handle complex
behaviors, such as side effects. I motivate, describe, and
analyze the technique and a working prototype, GBR, which
has been tested on two libraries: one containing general
programming components, the other containing (some) Unix
shell commands.},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Dynamic_Analysis,
Dynamic_Data_Flow_Analysis}
}
Extraktion statischer Traces zur Wiedergewinnung von Protokollen, Sven Hanssen
@MastersThesis{ hanssen:extraktion,
author = {Sven Hanssen},
title = {Extraktion statischer Traces zur Wiedergewinnung von
Protokollen},
school = {Institut für Informatik, Universität Stuttgart},
year = {2000},
note = {The language is German.},
type = {Studienarbeit Nr. 1768},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Others}
}
Program Slicing, Mark Harmann and Keith Brian Gallagher
@Article{ harmann.gallagher:program,
author = {Mark Harmann and Keith Brian Gallagher},
title = {Program Slicing},
journal = {Information and Software Technology},
year = {1998},
key = {Program Slicing},
volume = {40},
number = {11-12},
pages = {577-582},
month = {November},
note = {Special issue on program slicing},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Program_Slicing}
}
A method to remove variations in source codes, Norihide Hattori and Naohiro Ishii
@Article{ hattori.ishii:method,
author = {Norihide Hattori and Naohiro Ishii},
title = {A method to remove variations in source codes},
journal = {Information and Software Technology},
volume = {38},
pages = {25-36},
year = {1996},
abstract = {Variations in source codes of computer programs cause
difficult problems in source code handling systems, such as
program understanding systems. This paper proposes a new
method to remove these variations. First, a representation
method of programs is discussed. The proposed
representation is free from three kinds of variations and
it can be easily rewritten. Next, a prototype variation
removal system is evaluated. The system utilizes the
representation and removes 13 kinds of variations by
program rewriting. It has removed 20 - 83 \% variations in
the source codes implemented by undergraduates and
postgraduates. },
keywords = {Variation removal; Source code; Rewriting},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Others}
}
Flow analysis of computer programs, M. Hecht
@Book{ hecht:flow,
title = {Flow analysis of computer programs},
author = {M. Hecht},
publisher = { Elsevier North-Holland},
year = {1977},
note = { A classical book on the theory and implementation of
algorithms for data flow analysis},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Static_Analysis,
Static_Data_Flow_Analysis}
}
Semi-automatische Herleitung von Komponentenprotokollen aus statischen Verwendungsmustern, Timo Heiber
@MastersThesis{ heiber:semi-automatische,
author = {Timo Heiber},
title = {Semi-automatische Herleitung von Komponentenprotokollen
aus statischen Verwendungsmustern},
school = {Institut für Informatik, Universität Stuttgart},
year = {2000},
type = {Diplomarbeit Nr. 1822},
note = {The language is English, even though the title is
German.},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Others}
}
Interprocedural slicing using dependence graphs, Horwitz, S. and Reps, T., and Binkley, D.
@Article{ horwitz.reps.ea:interprocedural,
author = {Horwitz, S. and Reps, T., and Binkley, D.},
title = {Interprocedural slicing using dependence graphs},
journal = {ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems},
volume = {12},
number = {1},
month = {January},
year = {1990},
pages = {26-60},
http = {http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~reps/reps.html#toplas90},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Program_Slicing}
}
The Use of Program Dependence Graphs in Software Engineering, S. Horwitz and T. Reps
@InProceedings{ horwitz.reps:use,
author = {S. Horwitz and T. Reps},
title = {The Use of Program Dependence Graphs in Software
Engineering},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on
Software Engineering },
pages = {392--411},
month = may,
year = {1992},
abstract = {This paper describes a language-independent program
representation-the program dependence graph-and discusses
how program dependence graphs, together with operations
such as program slicing, can provide the basis for powerful
programming tools that address important software
engineering problems, such as understanding what an
existing program does and how it works, understanding the
differences between several versions of a program, and
creating new programs by combining pieces of old programs.
The paper primarily surveys work in this area that has been
carried out at the University of Wisconsin.},
http = {http://www.cs.wisc.edu/wpis/papers/icse92.ps},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Program_Slicing}
}
Using Visualization for Architectural Localization and Extraction, Dean Jerding and Spencer Rugaber
Available as
postscript.
@InProceedings{ jerding.rugaber:using,
author = {Dean Jerding and Spencer Rugaber},
title = {Using Visualization for Architectural Localization and
Extraction},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourth Working Conference on Reverse
Engineering},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press Los Alamitos California},
year = {1997},
editor = {Ira Baxter and Alex Quilici and Chris Verhoef},
chapter = {},
pages = {},
address = {},
month = {},
url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/morale/papers/isvis_wcre.ps},
abstract = { Understanding the architecture of a program requires
determining both the major components into which the system
is broken and the ways in which the components interact to
accomplish the program's goals. Both static and dynamic
analyses of the software can aid in obtaining this
understanding. This paper describes an analysis technique
for gaining such understanding and a visualization tool
called ISVis that supports it. The technique is applied to
the problem of enhancing the Mosaic web browser by both
visualizing its architecture and finding the components of
the browser into which an enhancement should be inserted.
},
keywords = {software architecture extraction program visualization
dynamic analysis program understanding},
note = {},
class = {Visualization_for_Program_Understanding_and_Debugging
Software_Reverse_Engineering Software_Animation
Reverse_Specification Reverse_Design
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design
Recovery_of_Software_Architecture Dynamic_Analysis }
}
A Quick Tools Strategy for Program Analysis and Software Maintenance, Bret Johnson and Stephen B. Ornburn and Spencer Rugaber
@InProceedings{ johnson.ornburn.ea:quick,
author = {Bret Johnson and Stephen B. Ornburn and Spencer Rugaber},
title = {A Quick Tools Strategy for Program Analysis and Software
Maintenance},
pages = {206-213},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Software
Maintenance ~1992},
year = {1992},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
month = nov,
abstract = {Most software maintenance tasks are driven by specific
customer requests for program corrections or enhancements.
These often require detailed analyses of specific code
segments. Monolithic tools may not be flexible enough to
deal with such specific requests. This paper describes a
strategy for quickly producing new special-purpose tools.
The strategy combines existing tools including simple,
off-the-shelf text processing tools; rule-based,
language-specific analysis tools; and a commercial CASE
tool.},
ftp = {ftp.cc.gatech.edu//pub/groups/reverse/repository/quick.ps}
,
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering,
Software_Reverse_Engineering_Tools, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Static_Analysis,
Static_Data_Flow_Analysis}
}
A quick tools approach to program analysis and software maintenance, B. Johnson and S. Ornburn and S. Rugaber
@InProceedings{ johnson.ornburn.ea:quick*1,
title = {A quick tools approach to program analysis and software
maintenance},
author = {B. Johnson and S. Ornburn and S. Rugaber},
booktitle = {\cite{SM92}},
year = {1992},
note = { Describes the use of standard Unix tools like (Awk, Lex,
Yacc) for extracting information from PL/M code. The
information is then visualized using a commercial CASE tool
(Software Through Pictures)},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Static_Analysis}
}
Reverse Engineering with a CASE Tool, Bret Johnson
@Unpublished{ johnson:reverse,
author = {Bret Johnson},
title = {Reverse Engineering with a CASE Tool},
month = oct,
year = {1994},
abstract = {We examine using a CASE tool, Interactive Development
Environment's Software through Pictures (StP), to support
reverse engineering. We generate structure charts in StP
from the automated analysis of C source code. The
advantages of this approach are that one can use the CASE
tool's support for drawing, linking, and modifying
pictorial notations for program design in order to make it
easier to construct a reverse engineering tool.
Additionally, one can the use the design representations
with the CASE tool to do reengineering for maintenance.},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Code_Views,
Software_Reverse_Engineering_Tools}
}
Application of Program Slicing in Algorithmic Debugging, Mariam Kamkar
@Article{ kamkar:application,
author = {Mariam Kamkar},
title = {Application of Program Slicing in Algorithmic Debugging},
journal = {Information and Software Technology},
year = {1998},
key = {Program Slicing},
volume = {40},
number = {11-12},
pages = {635-646},
month = {November},
note = {Special issue on program slicing},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Program_Slicing}
}
A Reverse Engineering Methodology for Data Processing Applications, Kit Kamper and Spencer Rugaber
@TechReport{ kamper.rugaber:reverse,
author = {Kit Kamper and Spencer Rugaber},
title = {A Reverse Engineering Methodology for Data Processing
Applications},
number = {GIT-SERC-90/02},
institution = {Software Engineering Center Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta, GA},
year = {1990},
month = mar,
note = {Figures are missing},
abstract = {Reverse engineering produces a high-level representation
of a software system from a low-level one. This paper
describes a methodology for reverse engineering that
constructs an architectural design for a system from its
source code and related documentation. The methodology
makes use of several techniques normally used during the
forward software development process as well as a new
technique called Synchronized Refinement. Synchronized
Refinement is a systematic approach to detecting design
decisions in source code and relating the detected
decisions to the functionality of the system. Examples are
given demonstrating the application of the methodology to
the reverse engineering of a production software system.},
ftp = {ftp.cc.gatech.edu//pub/groups/reverse/repository/synchronized.ps}
,
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Process_Models_for_Reverse_Design,
Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design}
}
Dynamic Program Slicing Methods, Bogdan Korel and Jürgen Rilling
@Article{ korel.rilling:dynamic,
author = {Bogdan Korel and Jürgen Rilling},
title = {Dynamic Program Slicing Methods},
journal = {Information and Software Technology},
year = {1998},
key = {Program Slicing},
volume = {40},
number = {11-12},
pages = {647-660},
month = {November},
note = {Special issue on program slicing},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Program_Slicing}
}
Program Slicing, Jens Krinke and Gregor Snelting
@Article{ krinke.snelting:program,
author = {Jens Krinke and Gregor Snelting},
title = {Program Slicing},
journal = {Information and Software Technology},
year = {1998},
key = {Program Slicing},
volume = {40},
number = {11-12},
pages = {661-676},
month = {November},
note = {Special issue on program slicing},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Program_Slicing}
}
Querying as an Enabling Technology in Software Reengineering, Bernt Kullbach and Andreas Winter
Available as
csmr99.pdf.
@InProceedings{ kullbach.winter:querying,
author = {Bernt Kullbach and Andreas Winter},
title = {Querying as an Enabling Technology in Software
Reengineering},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd Euromicro Conference on Software
Maintenance and Reengineering},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
year = {1999},
editor = {C. Verhoef and P. Nesi},
pages = {42--50},
address = {Los Alamitos},
url = {http://www.gupro.de/papers/csmr99.pdf},
abstract = {In this paper it is argued that different kinds of
reengineering technologies can be based on querying.
Several reengineering technologies are presented as being
integrated into a technically oriented reengineering
taxonomy. The usefulness of querying is pointed out with
respect to these reengineering technologies.\par To impose
querying as a base technology in reengineering examples are
given with respect to the EER/GRAL approach to conceptual
modeling and implementation. This approach is presented
together with GReQL as its query part. The different
reengineering technologies are finally reviewed in the
context of the GReQL query facility.},
keywords = {software reengineering, query approach, graph-based
modeling, reengineering technologies},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering Using_graphs
Source_Code_Querie Reverse_Design
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design
Intermediate_Representations_of_Source_Code Static_Analysis
}
}
Restructuring Programs by Tucking Statements into Functions, Arun Lakhotia and Jean-Christophe Deprez
@Article{ lakhotia.deprez:restructuring,
author = {Arun Lakhotia and Jean-Christophe Deprez},
title = {Restructuring Programs by Tucking Statements into
Functions},
journal = {Information and Software Technology},
year = {1998},
key = {Program Slicing},
volume = {40},
number = {11-12},
pages = {677-690},
month = {November},
note = {Special issue on program slicing},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Program_Slicing}
}
CARE: An Environement for Understanding and Re--engineering C--Programs, Panagiotis Linos and Philippe Aubet and Laurent Dumas and Yan Helleboid and Patricia Lejeune and Philippe Tulula
@InProceedings{ linos.aubet.ea:care,
author = {Panagiotis Linos and Philippe Aubet and Laurent Dumas and
Yan Helleboid and Patricia Lejeune and Philippe Tulula},
title = {CARE: An Environement for Understanding and
Re--engineering C--Programs},
pages = {130--139},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Software
Maintenance ~1993},
year = {1993},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
month = sep,
abstract = {The focus of this paper is on facilitating incremental
understanding and re-enginering of existing C programs. A
software environement called C.A.R.E. (Computer-Aided
Re-engineering) is used as a vehicle towards that goal.
CARE maintains a repository of control-flow and data-flow
dependencies (i.e. entities and their relations) of C
programs. These dependencies can be visualized using a
novel representation model. Moreover, CARE entails
transformation tools that support various ways of
displaying program dependencies and facilitate incremental
program modifications. An empirical evaluation of the CARE
environement using small size C programs is performed. In
addition, CARE is used in order to modify the source code
of a medium-to-large size program. The results from this
empirical evaluation of CARE indicate that its presentation
model and transformation tools is a promising step towards
improving the effectiveness of understanding and
re-engineering existing C programs. Finally, the authors
discuss some issues raised during the modification exercise
with CARE when using a medium-to-large size program.},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Code_Views}
}
Task Interaction Graphs for Concurrency Analysis, D. L. Long and L. A. Clarke
@InProceedings{ long.clarke:task,
author = {D. L. Long and L. A. Clarke},
title = {Task Interaction Graphs for Concurrency Analysis},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on
Software Engineering },
pages = {44--52},
month = may,
year = {1989},
abstract = {A representation for concurrent programs called task
interaction graphs, is presented. Task interaction graphs
divide a program into maximal sequential regions connected
by edges representing task interactions. This
representation is illustrated. It is shown how task
interaction graphs can be used to create concurrency graph
representations that are much smaller than those created
from control flow graph representations. Both task
interaction graphs and their corresponding concurrency
graphs facilitate analysis of concurrent programs. Some
analyses and optimizations on these representations are
also described.},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Code_Views}
}
Properties of Data Flow Frameworks. A Unified Model, Marlowe and Ryder
@Article{ marlowe.ryder:properties,
author = {Marlowe and Ryder},
title = {Properties of Data Flow Frameworks. {A} Unified Model},
journal = {Acta Informatica},
publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
volume = {28},
year = {1990},
pages = {121-163},
note = { An overview of data flow frameworks and their
characterizing properties is given. Contains many
references to the field of data flow analysis},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Static_Analysis,
Static_Data_Flow_Analysis}
}
Reverse Engineering by visualizing and querying, A. Mendelzon and J. Sametinger
@Article{ mendelzon.sametinger:reverse,
title = {Reverse Engineering by visualizing and querying},
author = {A. Mendelzon and J. Sametinger},
journal = {Software---Concepts and Tools},
pages = {170--182},
volume = {16},
number = {4},
year = {1995},
note = { A tool called Hy+ is described that can be used for
reverse engineering. Hy+ is a general-purpose data
visualization system for querying and visualizing
information about object-oriented software systems. Hy+
supports this for arbitrary graph-like databases. The use
is demonstrated with the evaluation of software metrics,
verifying constraints and identifying design patterns},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Source_Code_Queries,
Reverse_Specification, Software_Animation,
Visualization_for_Program_Understanding_and_Debugging}
}
A Generic Architecture for Data Flow Analysis to Support Reverse Engineering, L. Moonen
Available as
.
@InProceedings{ moonen:generic,
author = {L. Moonen},
title = {A Generic Architecture for Data Flow Analysis to Support
Reverse Engineering},
booktitle = {Proc. 2nd Int. Workshop on the Theory and Practice of
Algebraic Specifications },
publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
year = {1997},
editor = {A. Sellink},
address = {Amsterdam},
url = {http://www.springer.co.uk/ewic/},
abstract = {Data flow analysis is a process for collecting run-time
information about data in programs without actually
executing them. In this paper we focus at the use of data
flow analysis to support program understanding and reverse
engineering. Data flow analysis is beneficial for these
applications since the information obtained can be used to
compute relationships between data objects in programs.
These relations play a key role for example in the
determination of the logical components of a system and
their interaction. The general support of program
understanding and reverse engineering requires the ability
to analyse a variety of source languages and the ability to
combine the results of analysing multiple languages. We
present a flexible and generic software architecture for
describing and performing language-independent data flow
analysis which allows such transparent multi-language
analysis. All components of this architecture were formally
specified. },
keywords = {language independent data flow analysis reverse
engineering},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering Static_Data_Flow_Analysis
Formal_Methods Reverse_Design
Software_Reverse_Engineering_Tools
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design Static_Analysis }
}
The translation of COBOL data structures to entity-relationship conceptual schema, E. Nillson
@InCollection{ nillson:translation,
title = {The translation of {COBOL} data structures to
entity-relationship conceptual schema},
author = {E. Nillson},
editor = {P. Chen},
booktitle = {Entity Relationship Approach: The Use of {ER} Concepts in
Knowledge Representation},
publisher = {{IEEE} CS Press},
year = {1986},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design,
Data-Centered_Program_Understanding}
}
A prototype system for static and dynamic program understanding, D. Olshefski and A. Cole
@InProceedings{ olshefski.cole:prototype,
author = {D. Olshefski and A. Cole},
title = {A prototype system for static and dynamic program
understanding},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st Working Conference on Reverse
Engineering },
pages = {93--106},
year = {1993},
note = { Describes the experimental PUNDIT system that combines
static and dynamic information for program understanding.
It comprises a static analyzer for C source code and a,
mostly language-independent, graphical user interface.
Gives various examples of program views},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Static_Analysis,
Dynamic_Analysis, Code_Views}
}
The book paradigm for improved maintenance, P.W. Oman and C.R. Cook
@Article{ oman.cook:book,
title = {The book paradigm for improved maintenance},
author = {P.W. Oman and C.R. Cook},
journal = {{IEEE} Software},
volume = {7},
number = {1},
pages = {39--45},
year = {1990},
note = { It is shown that traditional typographical formats used
in books work very well to aid program understanding},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design,
Reformatting_and_Markup_Languages}
}
Program Slices as an Abstraction for Cohesion Measurement, Linda M. Ott and James M. Bieman
@Article{ ott.bieman:program,
author = {Linda M. Ott and James M. Bieman},
title = {Program Slices as an Abstraction for Cohesion
Measurement},
journal = {Information and Software Technology},
year = {1998},
key = {Program Slicing},
volume = {40},
number = {11-12},
pages = {691-700},
month = {November},
note = {Special issue on program slicing},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Program_Slicing}
}
A framework for source code search using program patterns, S. Paul and A. Prakash
@Article{ paul.prakash:framework,
title = {A framework for source code search using program
patterns},
author = {S. Paul and A. Prakash},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering},
pages = {463--475},
volume = {20},
number = {6},
year = {1994},
note = { It is argued that existing solutions to locating source
code fragments that match certain patterns are
insufficient. A framework in which pattern languages are
used to specify interesting code features is presented.
These are obtained by extending the source programming
language with pattern-matching symbols. This is implemented
in a tool called SCRUPLE},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design,
Source_Code_Queries}
}
Supporting Queries on Source Code: A Formal Framework, S. Paul and A. Prakash
@Article{ paul.prakash:supporting,
author = {S. Paul and A. Prakash},
title = {Supporting Queries on Source Code: A Formal Framework},
journal = {International Journal of Software Engineering and
Knowledge Engineering},
volume = {4},
number = {3},
pages = {325-348},
year = {1994},
note = { A source code query system is a powerful mechanism to
obtain crucial information necessary to successfully
performing a reverse engineering task. A source code
algebra (SCA) is developed which is strongly based on
relational algebras as well as on many sorted algebras. Two
types of data types are distinguished in the source code
algebra model: \begin{itemize} \item atomic data types,
such as integer, float, etc. \item composite data types
(so-called objects): \begin{itemize} \item singular
objects, such as while-statement, identifier, etc. \item
collective objects, such as statement-list, etc.
\end{itemize} \end{itemize} The objects are extended with
four kinds of attributes, namely, components, references,
annotations, and methods. An extensive set of source code
algebra operators are defined, such operators defined for
atomic data types, individual objects, and collections,
i.e., sets and sequences. The operators for the collections
are strongly influenced by the operators from the
relational algebra domain},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design,
Source_Code_Queries}
}
An Integrated Program Representation and Toolkit for the Maintenance of C Programs, Michael Platoff and Michael Wagner and Joseph Camaratta
@InProceedings{ platoff.wagner.ea:integrated,
author = {Michael Platoff and Michael Wagner and Joseph Camaratta},
title = {An Integrated Program Representation and Toolkit for the
Maintenance of C Programs},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Software
Maintenance ~1991},
year = {1991},
pages = {129-137},
organization = {IEEE},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
abstract = {Maintaining large software systems has become an
increasingly common and expensive task for many
organizations. Understanding and modifying existing
programs is a major goal of the authors' Maintainer's
Assistant (MA) project, an environment for the maintenance
of software systems written in the C language. The authors
describe an integrated program representation that presents
views of the source text, architecture, syntax, static
semantics, and control and data flow of software systems.
Changes to these views are provided by a transformation
toolkit that supports structured modifications to the
representation. Modifications in one view are reflected in
related views. The representation and toolkit support all
of C, including features of the C preprocessor.},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Code_Views,
Reengineering_Tools}
}
Retrieving Reusable Software by Sampling Behaviour, Andy Podgurski and Lynn Pierce
@Article{ podgurski.pierce:retrieving,
key = {Podgurski \& Pierce, 1993},
author = {Andy Podgurski and Lynn Pierce},
title = {Retrieving Reusable Software by Sampling Behaviour},
journal = { ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and
Methodology},
year = {1993},
volume = {2},
number = {3},
pages = {286-303},
month = jul,
abstract = {A new method, called behavior sampling, is proposed for
automated retrieval of reusable components from software
libraries. Behavior sampling exploits the property of
software that distinguishes it from other forms of text:
executability. Basic behavior sampling identifies relevant
routines by executing candidates on a searcher supplied
sample of operational inputs and by comparing their output
provided by the searcher. The probabilistic basis for
behavior sampling is described, and experimental results
are reported that suggest that basic behavior sampling
exhibits high precision when used with small samples.
Extensions to basic behavioral sampling are proposed to
improve its recall and to make it applicable to the
retrieval of abstract data types and object classes.},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Re-Use,
Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Dynamic_Analysis,
Dynamic_Data_Flow_Analysis}
}
An approach for reverse engineering of relational databases, W. Premerlani and M. Blaha
@InProceedings{ premerlani.blaha:approach,
author = {W. Premerlani and M. Blaha},
title = {An approach for reverse engineering of relational
databases},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st Working Conference on Reverse
Engineering },
pages = {151--160},
year = {1993},
note = { Experience report describing the reverse engineering of
several relational databases to OMT (Object Modeling
Technique) diagrams. The process is partly automated using
a variety of tools},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design,
Data-Centered_Program_Understanding}
}
Algorithm for Graphic Layout in VIFOR, Vaclav Rajlich and Nicolas Damaskinos
@InProceedings{ rajlich.damaskinos:algorithm,
author = {Vaclav Rajlich and Nicolas Damaskinos},
title = {Algorithm for Graphic Layout in VIFOR},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Software
Maintenance ~1990},
year = {1990},
pages = {142-145},
organization = {IEEE},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
abstract = {VIFOR is a tool for maintenance of large FORTRAN programs.
It contains a database which stores information on all
nonlocal declaractions of the programs (i.e. subroutines,
functions, commons), all source files, and all relations
among them.
The programmer accesses this database by queries which
produce views. Each view is a subset of the information
stored in the database. VIFOR displays these views in
browsers, which are specialized windows displaying the
views graphically.},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Code_Views,
Software_Reverse_Engineering_Tools, VIFOR}
}
Incremental Redocumentation with Hypertext, Vaclav Rajlich
@InProceedings{ rajlich:incremental,
author = {Vaclav Rajlich},
title = {Incremental Redocumentation with Hypertext},
booktitle = {1st European Conference on Software Maintenance and
Reengineering 97},
month = mar,
year = {1997},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
abstract = {Redocumentation is the recovery and recording of software
comprehension. Since software comprehension is the most
expensive part of software maintenance, redocumentation is
the key to software maintainability. This paper describes
the process and tools of incremental redocumentation where
the comprehension of the software is recorded in hypertext,
in the style of World Wide Web. The paper describes the
tools which support redocumentation, and gives several
examples. },
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Hypertext}
}
Program Analysis via Graph Reachability, Thomas Reps
@Article{ reps:program,
author = {Thomas Reps},
title = {Program Analysis via Graph Reachability},
journal = {Information and Software Technology},
year = {1998},
key = {Program Slicing},
volume = {40},
number = {11-12},
pages = {701-726},
month = {November},
note = {Special issue on program slicing},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Program_Slicing}
}
Separating parsing and analysis in reverse engineering tools, H. Reubenstein and R. Piazza and S. Roberts
@InProceedings{ reubenstein.piazza.ea:separating,
author = {H. Reubenstein and R. Piazza and S. Roberts},
title = {Separating parsing and analysis in reverse engineering
tools},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st Working Conference on Reverse
Engineering },
pages = {117--125},
year = {1993},
note = { Experience report describing the extension of an existing
analysis tool with a new syntactic front-end. Concludes
that language-independence as well separation of parsing
and analysis are essential for extensibility},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Static_Analysis}
}
Reverse engineering programs via dynamic analysis, H. Ritsch and H. Sneed
@InProceedings{ ritsch.sneed:reverse,
author = {H. Ritsch and H. Sneed},
title = {Reverse engineering programs via dynamic analysis},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st Working Conference on Reverse
Engineering },
pages = {192--201},
year = {1993},
note = { Describes a dynamic analysis of COBOL programs. By
inspection of transaction files assertions are generated
capturing the input and output requirements of each
database operation},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Dynamic_Analysis}
}
Detecting Interleaving, Spencer Rugaber and Kurt Stirewalt and Linda M. Wills
@Unpublished{ rugaber.stirewalt.ea:detecting,
author = {Spencer Rugaber and Kurt Stirewalt and Linda M. Wills},
title = {Detecting Interleaving},
organization = {College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology},
address = {Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0280},
email = {spencer@cc.gatech.edu},
abstract = {The various goals and requirements of a system are
realized in software as fragments of code that are
typically ``interleaved'' in that they may be woven
together in the same contigous textual area of code. The
fragments of code are often delocalized and overlap rather
than beiing composed in a simple linear sequence.
Interleaving severely complicates software comprehension
and maintenance. To address this problem, we are developing
analysis tools, based on the Software Refinery. This paper
describes our experiences in detecting interleaving in a
corpus of mathematical software written in Fortran from the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In particular, it discusses how
feasible it is to detect interleaving of various types and
the ability of existing tools to assist these types of
detection.},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Others}
}
ISMM: The Incremental Software Maintenance Manager, Barbara G. Ryder
@InProceedings{ ryder:ismm,
author = {Barbara G. Ryder},
title = {ISMM: The Incremental Software Maintenance Manager},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Software
Maintenance ~1989},
year = {1989},
pages = {142-157},
organization = {IEEE},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
abstract = {ISMM, the Incremental Software Maintenance Manager, is a
prototype software maintenance tool which uses incremental
static analysis to assess the scope of proposed source code
changes. These effects can be predicted a priori, that is
without actually having to perform the software change,
thus anabling maintainers to choose between alternative
enhancements or bug fixes on the basis of their predicted
system impact. Incremental analysis efficiently updates
data flow information describing the definition, use and
sharing of data in an evolving software system, keeping
this information consistent with the current system state.
ISMM addresses problems in maintenance, program
understanding enhancement, system restructuring and
intelligent code reuse for C systems. Recently, ISMM has
provided the basis for an empirical study of the calling
structure of C systems. ISMM has also been used to profile
the on the average performance of our incremental analysis
algorithms; it clearly validates their usefulness,
especially for large systems. This paper describes the
design and implementation of ISMM and summarizes our
empirical studies.},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Static_Analysis,
Static_Data_Flow_Analysis}
}
A Tool for the Maintenance of C++ Programs, Johannes Sametinger
@InProceedings{ sametinger:tool,
author = {Johannes Sametinger},
title = {A Tool for the Maintenance of C++ Programs},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Software
Maintenance ~1990},
year = {1990},
pages = {54-59},
organization = {IEEE},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
abstract = {This paper describes a tool that helps programmers
understand object-oriented software systems written in C++,
a language that is expected to gain widespread use in
industry. This task is accomplished by providing
information about the set of classes and files comprising
the system and the relationships among them. The tool
described enables its users to easily browse through the
system based on the relations amoung its classes, files and
even identifiers. In addition, the flexible use of global
text styles enhances the readability of the source code.
The second part of the paper describes some details about
the implementation of the tool. In particular, problems are
mentioned that arise when performing static analysis of C++
programs. This analysis is necessary for obtaining
information needed about the program system.
The primary goal of developing the tool has been to support
software maintenance, but its use is in no way limited to
that process},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Static_Analysis,
Static_Data_Flow_Analysis}
}
LOGISCOPE and the Software Maintenance Crisis, Mark A. Servello
@InProceedings{ servello:logiscope,
author = {Mark A. Servello},
title = {LOGISCOPE and the Software Maintenance Crisis},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Software
Maintenance ~1990},
year = {1990},
pages = {104},
organization = {IEEE},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
abstract = {Gaining a complete understanding of unfamiliar source code
is fundamental to effective maintenance of that software.
LOGISCOPE performs a fast and consistent source code
analysis in wide variety of languages to produce graphic
aids and complexity metrics which can drastically reduce
both time and error in gaining this understanding.},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Code_Views,
Software_Reverse_Engineering_Tools, LOGISCOPE}
}
Graph Layout adjustment strategies, M.-A. D. Storey and H. Mueller
@InProceedings{ storey.mueller:graph,
author = {M.-A. D. Storey and H. Mueller},
title = {Graph Layout adjustment strategies},
key = {graph layout,},
booktitle = {Graph Drawing 1995 Proceedings},
year = {1995},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Code_Views,
Software_Reverse_Engineering_Tools, Rigi}
}
Manipulating and Documenting Software Structures using SHriMP Views, M-A D Storey and H. Mueller
@InProceedings{ storey.mueller:manipulating,
author = {M-A D Storey and H. Mueller},
title = {Manipulating and Documenting Software Structures using
SHriMP Views},
key = {program understanding, reverse engineering, reengineering,
software visualization, fisheye views},
pages = {275-285},
booktitle = {International Conference in Software Maintenance},
year = {1995},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Code_Views,
Software_Reverse_Engineering_Tools, Rigi}
}
On the relationships between static and dynamic models in reverse engineering Java software, Tarja Systä
Available as
~tsysta.
@InProceedings{ systä:on,
author = {Tarja Systä},
title = {On the relationships between static and dynamic models in
reverse engineering Java software},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th Working Conference on Reverse
Engineering (WCRE99)},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
year = {1999},
pages = {304-313},
url = {http://www.cs.tut.fi/~tsysta},
abstract = {An experimental environment for reverse engineering Java
software is discussed. Static information is extracted from
class files and viewed using Rigi reverse engineering
environment. The dynamic information is generated by
running the target software under a debugger. The debugged
event trace information is viewed as scenario diagrams
using a prototype tool called SCED. In SCED state diagrams
can be synthesized automatically from scenario diagrams.
Dynamic information can also be attached to the static Rigi
graph. Both static and dynamic views contain information
about software artifacts and their relations. Such
overlapping information forms a connection for information
exchange between the views. SCED scenario diagrams are used
for slicing the Rigi view and the Rigi view, in turn, is
used to guide the generation of SCED scenario diagrams and
for raising their level of abstraction. },
keywords = {Java, SCED, Rigi, static reverse engineering, dynamic
reverse engineering},
class = {Visualization_for_Program_Understanding_and_Debugging
Binary_Reverse_Engineering Software_Animation
Reverse_Specification Visualizing_Object-Oriented_Programs
Reverse_Design Reverse_Engineering_Tools Program_Slicing
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design Rigi Dynamic_Analysis
Software_Reverse_Engineering Static_Analysis }
}
Static and Dynamic Reverse Engineering Techniques for Java Software Systems, Tarja Systä
Available as
~tsysta.
@PhDThesis{ systä:static,
author = {Tarja Systä},
title = {Static and Dynamic Reverse Engineering Techniques for Java
Software Systems},
school = {University of Tampere},
year = {2000},
url = {http://www.cs.tut.fi/~tsysta},
keywords = {Java, static reverse engineering, dynamic reverse
engineering, Rigi, SCED, Shimba},
class = {Visualization_for_Program_Understanding_and_Debugging
Binary_Reverse_Engineering Software_Animation
Reverse_Specification Visualizing_Object-Oriented_Programs
Reverse_Design Reverse_Engineering_Tools Program_Slicing
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design Rig Dynamic_Analysis
Software_Reverse_Engineering Static_Analysis }
}
Recovery of Object-Oriented Design from Existing Data-intensive Business Programs, H.B.T. Tan and T.W. Ling
@Article{ tan.ling:recovery,
title = {Recovery of Object-Oriented Design from Existing
Data-intensive Business Programs},
author = {H.B.T. Tan and T.W. Ling},
journal = {Information and Software Technology},
volume = {37},
number = {2},
pages = {67--77},
year = {1995},
note = { A method is given for the recovery of a specification
from an existing data-intensive business program using an
augmented model that is proposed in the paper},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design,
Data-Centered_Program_Understanding}
}
A Methodology for Reverse Engineering Hierarchical Databases, F. Tangorra and D. Chiarolla
@Article{ tangorra.chiarolla:methodology,
title = {A Methodology for Reverse Engineering Hierarchical
Databases},
author = {F. Tangorra and D. Chiarolla},
journal = {Information and Software Technology},
volume = {37},
number = {4},
pages = {225--231},
year = {1995},
note = { The steps of a reverse engineering process for
translating a hierarchical data scheme into a conceptual
description in the extended entity-relationship model are
described. Contains a case study},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design,
Data-Centered_Program_Understanding}
}
A survey of program slicing techniques, F. Tip
@Article{ tip:survey,
title = {A survey of program slicing techniques},
author = {F. Tip},
journal = {Journal of programming languages},
volume = {3},
pages = {121--189},
year = {1995},
note = { Surveys the state-of-the-art in program slicing and gives
many references to the literature},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Program_Slicing}
}
Variable Precision Reaching definitions Analysis for Software Maintenance, Paolo Tonella and Giuliano Antoniol and Roberto Fiutem and Ettore Merlo
@InProceedings{ tonella.antoniol.ea:variable,
author = {Paolo Tonella and Giuliano Antoniol and Roberto Fiutem and
Ettore Merlo},
title = {Variable Precision Reaching definitions Analysis for
Software Maintenance},
booktitle = {1st European Conference on Software Maintenance and
Reengineering 97},
month = mar,
year = {1997},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
abstract = {A flow analyzer can be very helpful in the process of
program understanding, by providing the programmer with
different views of the code. As the documentation is often
incomplete or inconsistent, it is extremely useful to
extract the information a programmer may need directly from
the code. Program understanding activities are interactive,
thus program analysis tools may be asked for quick answers
by the maintainer. Therefore the control on the trade-off
between accuracy and efficiency should be given to the user.
This paper presents an approach to interprocedural reaching
definitions flow analysis based on three levels of
precision depending on the sensitivity to the calling
context and the control flow. A lower precision degree
produces an overestimate of the data dependences in a
program. The result is anyhow conservative (all dependences
which hold are surely reported), and definitely faster than
the more accurate counterparts. A tool supporting reaching
definition analysis in the three variants has been
developed. The results on a test suite show that three
orders of magnitude can be gained in execution times by the
less accurate analysis, but 57.4 % extra dependences are on
average added. The intermediate variant is much more
precise (1.6 % extra dependences), but gains less in times
(one order of magnitude). },
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Static_Analysis,
Static_Data_Flow_Analysis}
}
Static Analysis of Program Source Code using EDSA, Leonard I. Vanek and Mark N. Culp
@InProceedings{ vanek.culp:static,
author = {Leonard I. Vanek and Mark N. Culp},
title = {Static Analysis of Program Source Code using EDSA},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Software
Maintenance ~1989},
year = {1989},
pages = {192-199},
organization = {IEEE},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
abstract = {ESDA is a tool that uses static analysis of source code to
help gain an understanding of existing code. This may be
for the purpose of tracking down a bug or to determine in
advance whether an intended change will have any
undesirable side effects. In either case, the phase of the
development life cycle that will most benefit from a tool
like EDSA is the maintenance phase.
ESDA provides three kinds of facilities. It helps to browse
through code following either the control flow or data flow
rather than the order in which the code happens to be
written. It displays code with unimportant source lines
elided, so that the user can get a more global view of the
program. Finally, it provides search management to make it
easier to examine all possibilities when browsing.},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Static_Analysis,
Static_Data_Flow_Analysis}
}
DESIRE-88 Prototype Tools, Dallas Webster
@TechReport{ webster:desire-88,
author = {Dallas Webster},
title = {DESIRE-88 Prototype Tools},
institution = {MCC},
year = {1989},
type = {Technical Report},
number = {STP-069-89},
month = feb,
abstract = {DESIRE is an STP activity whose goal is to develop and
support a process for recovering design information from
the artifacts (e.g. code, specifications and user
documentation) of existing designs. This report presents a
snapshot of the initial phase of that activity, showing its
status by discussing some prototype tools that we have been
experimenting with an evaluating.},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design}
}
Foreword to Special Issue on Program Slicing, Mark Weiser
@Article{ weiser:foreword,
author = {Mark Weiser},
title = {Foreword to Special Issue on Program Slicing},
journal = {Information and Software Technology},
year = {1998},
key = {Program Slicing},
volume = {40},
number = {11-12},
pages = {575-576},
month = {November},
note = {Special issue on program slicing},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Program_Slicing}
}
Program slicing, M. Weiser
@Article{ weiser:program,
title = {Program slicing},
author = {M. Weiser},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering},
volume = {10},
number = {4},
pages = {352--357},
year = {1984},
note = { In this paper some properties of slices are presented. It
is shown that the use of data-flow analysis is sufficient
to find approximate slices of the generally unsolvable
problem of finding statement-minimal slices},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Program_Slicing}
}
Dependence Analysis Tools: Reusable Components for Software Maintenance, Norman Wilde and Ross Huitt and Scott Huitt
@InProceedings{ wilde.huitt.ea:dependence,
author = {Norman Wilde and Ross Huitt and Scott Huitt},
title = {Dependence Analysis Tools: Reusable Components for
Software Maintenance},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Software
Maintenance ~1989},
year = {1989},
pages = {126-131},
organization = {IEEE},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
abstract = {Software Maintenance is costly because of the many complex
interrelationships in a large software system; an
understanding of these program dependencies is fundamentral
to efficient software change. This paper describes a
general purpose toolset that is now being developed to
capture and analyze software dependencies. The tools are
designed to serve as reusable components. They may be used
not only to aid programmers directly in understanding
programs but also as a basis from which other specialized
tools can be constructed.
The tools use the concept of a dependency graph as a basic
abstraction to simplify the understanding of software
relationships. Definitional, calling, functional and
data-flow dependencies are analyzed. An external dependency
graph for each function is developed to encapsulate the
effects of function calls.},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering,
Intermediate_Representations_of_Source_Code, Using_graphs,
Reverse_Design, Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design,
Static_Analysis, Static_Data_Flow_Analysis}
}
A reusable toolset for software dependency analysis, N. Wilde and R. Huitt
@Article{ wilde.huitt:reusable,
title = {A reusable toolset for software dependency analysis},
author = {N. Wilde and R. Huitt},
journal = {Journal of Systems and Software},
volume = {14},
number = {2},
pages = {97--102},
year = {1991},
note = { A general purpose tool set that has been developed to
capture and analyse software dependencies is described. A
prototype of this so-called dependency analysis tool set
has been implemented to analyze C code},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Static_Analysis}
}
The AdaPIC Tool Set: Supporting Interface Control and Analysis Throughout the Software Development Process, A. L. Wolf and L. A. Clarke and J. C. Wileden
@Article{ wolf.clarke.ea:adapic,
key = {Wolf et al.},
author = {A. L. Wolf and L. A. Clarke and J. C. Wileden},
title = {The AdaPIC Tool Set: Supporting Interface Control and
Analysis Throughout the Software Development Process},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering},
pages = {250--263},
volume = {15},
number = {3},
month = mar,
year = {1989},
location = {CMU E & S Library},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
Fundamental_Methods_in_Reverse_Design, Static_Analysis,
Static_Data_Flow_Analysis}
}