Reverse Engineering and Data Flow Diagrams in ADA Environment, G. Canfora and Aniello Cimitile and De Carlini, Ugo
@Article{ canfora.cimitile.ea:reverse,
author = {G. Canfora and Aniello Cimitile and De Carlini, Ugo},
title = {Reverse Engineering and Data Flow Diagrams in ADA
Environment},
journal = {Microprocessing and Microprogramming},
year = {1990},
volume = {30},
pages = {357-364},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Specification,
Model_Generating}
}
DARE: Domain-Augmented ReEngineering, Jean-Marc DeBaud
@InProceedings{ debaud:dare,
author = {Jean-Marc DeBaud},
title = {DARE: Domain-Augmented ReEngineering},
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},
abstract = {We present in this article the principles of a
domain-augmented reengineering approach (DARE) as well as
our initial experience applying sections of it. The
principal characteristic of the DARE approach is its focus
upon the computational context of a software system i.e.
the business or scientific domain to which it relates. This
context information is used both to drive the program
understanding as well as for the program evolution phases
of reengineering. In DARE a domain model (concepts and
associated relationships) serves as the structure denoting
context and is used for two purposes. First a dictionary of
possible domain concept realizations is populated. Second a
set of mappings from the domain to an existing tool or
library related to the domain is defined. Reengineering
then proceeds as follows: First a legacy system is analyzed
and annotated with the dictionary of domain concept
realizations. Then these matched concepts are transitioned
to the tool or library using the predefined mapping set.
Program evolution can then take place at the level of the
tool or library. Using our initial experience we discuss
DARE present an analysis and suggest implications for
future work.},
class = {Software_Evolution Software_Reverse_Engineering
Model_Generating Reverse_Specification Reverse_Design
Domain_Analysis Process_Models_for_Reverse_Design
Knowledge-Based_Concept_Assignmen }
}
Abstracting the Logical Processing Life Cycle for Entities Using the RECAST method, Helen M. Edwards and Malcolm Munro
@InProceedings{ edwards.munro:abstracting,
author = {Helen M. Edwards and Malcolm Munro},
title = {Abstracting the Logical Processing Life Cycle for Entities
Using the RECAST method},
pages = {162--171},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Software
Maintenance ~1993},
year = {1993},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
month = sep,
abstract = {The Reverse Engineering into CASE Technology method
(RECAST) takes the source code for an existing COBOL system
and derives a no-loss representation of the system
documented in a Structured System Analysis and Design
Method (SSADM) format. One key element of the method is the
abstraction of logical processing that affects the
individual entities of the system. For each entity this
processing is extracted from the physical implementation of
the system using a program slicing technique and is then
transformed into a logical representation (as an Entity
Life History) using a set of translation and transformation
rules. This paper describes how the abstraction is achieved
and illustrates it with an example that was derived from an
existing operational system that has been used as a case
study for the method.},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Specification,
Model_Generating}
}
Clarity Guided Belief Revision for Domain Knowledge Recovery in Legacy Systems, Yang Li and Hongji Yang and William Chu
Available as .
@InProceedings{ li.yang.ea:clarity,
author = {Yang Li and Hongji Yang and William Chu},
title = {Clarity Guided Belief Revision for Domain Knowledge
Recovery in Legacy Systems},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on
Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE2000)},
publisher = {Knowledge System Institute},
year = {2000},
editor = {Daniel E. Cooke and Joseph E. Urban},
chapter = {},
pages = {248-255},
address = {Chicago, USA},
month = {June},
url = {},
abstract = {Program understanding is the process of acquiring
knowledge from a computer program. Although research work
utilising knowledge engineering techniques has been
undertaken in this field, it is our observation that a
thorough application of AI methodology has not been
sufficiently explored. In this paper, we present a clarity
guided belief revision approach to domain knowledge
recovery in legacy software systems. Novel solutions are
given to three key AI issues in the context of domain
knowledge recovery from source code: knowledge
representation, where concrete semantic network is
separated from abstract semantic network to better
accommodate uncertainty reasoning and propagation;
uncertainty reasoning, which borrows ideas from
confirmation theory and recasts them in the context of
semantic network reasoning; heuristic search, which is
designed on the principle of programming psychology. Our
approach is light-weighted. It can be used stand-alone or
as a complement to traditional heavy-weighted domain
knowledge recovery methods. },
keywords = {program understanding, knowledge recovery, semantic
network, belief revision, heuristic search, programming
psychology},
note = {This paper describes our innovative work where
psychology-based methodology was brought into the area of
Articial Intelligence and was applied in the field of
domain knowledge recovery from source code.},
class = {Knowledge-Based_Concept_Assignment System_Modularizatio
Model_Generating Reverse_Specification Metrics
Reverse_Design Domain_Analysis
Metric-Based_Methods_in_Reverse_Design
Human_Oriented_Concept_Assignment_by_Informal_Reasoning
Software_Reverse_Engineering }
}
A Concept-Oriented Belief Revision Approach to Domain Knowledge Recovery from Source Code, Yang Li and Hongji Yang and William Chu
@Article{ li.yang.ea:concept-oriented,
author = {Yang Li and Hongji Yang and William Chu},
title = {A Concept-Oriented Belief Revision Approach to Domain
Knowledge Recovery from Source Code},
journal = {Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice},
year = {2000},
volume = {12},
number = {6},
abstract = {Domain knowledge is the soul of software systems. After
decades of software development, domain knowledge has
reached a certain degree of saturation. The recovery of
domain knowledge from source code is beneficial to many
software engineering activities, in particular, software
evolution. In the real world, the ambiguous appearance of
domain knowledge embedded in source code constitutes the
biggest barrier to recovering reliable domain knowledge. In
this paper, we introduce an innovative approach to
recovering domain knowledge with enhanced reliability from
source code. In particular, we divide domain knowledge into
inter-connected knowledge slices and match these knowledge
slices against the source code. Each knowledge slice has
its own authenticity evaluation function which takes the
belief of the evidences it needs as input and the
authenticity of the knowledge slice as output. Moreover,
the knowledge slices are arranged to exchange beliefs with
each other through inter-connections, i.e., concepts, so
that a better evaluation of the authenticity of these
knowledge slices can be obtained. The decision on
acknowledging recovered knowledge slices can therefore be
made more easily. Rooted in cognitive science and social
psychology, our approach is also widely applicable to other
knowledge recovery tasks. },
keywords = {domain knowledge recovery, uncertainty reasoning,
cooperative behaviour, semantic network},
note = {It is the first attempt of applying social psychology
theory to the field of knowledge recovery, in particular
design recovery.},
class = {Knowledge-Based_Concept_Assignment Using_graphs
Model_Generating Reverse_Specification
Cognitive_Processes_in_Human_Program_Understanding
Reverse_Design Domain_Analysis
Human_Oriented_Concept_Assignment_by_Informal_Reasonin
Intermediate_Representations_of_Source_Code
Software_Reverse_Engineering }
}
Towards Building a Smarter Domain Knowledge Recovery Assistant, Yang Li and Hongji Yang and William Chu
Available as .
@InProceedings{ li.yang.ea:towards,
author = {Yang Li and Hongji Yang and William Chu},
title = {Towards Building a Smarter Domain Knowledge Recovery
Assistant},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 24th IEEE Annual Computer Software and
Applications Conference (COMPSAC2000)},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
year = {2000},
editor = {},
chapter = {},
pages = {},
address = {},
month = {Oct},
url = {},
abstract = {Legacy systems need to be ``salvaged'' to prolong their
life circle. One way for such a salvation is to recover and
maintain domain knowledge embedded in legacy code. It is
our observation that existing methods or tools for domain
knowledge recovery from source code did not provide
maintainers with sufficient assistance to reduce the size
of analysable program sections, identify program sections
having intensive domain knowledge and maintain the belief
of a network of domain knowledge extracted from source code
which can accommodate change of belief coming from a user.
In this paper, we introduce techniques which can provide
software maintainers with smart assistance for the
above-mentioned three issues. },
keywords = {program partitioning, program readability metric, belief
network, domain knowledge recovery},
note = {We incorpate human psychology knowledge with the design of
a domain knowledge recovery tool.},
class = {Automated_Reverse_Design
Knowledge-Based_Concept_Assignment Reverse_Engineering_Tool
Model_Generating Reverse_Specification
Cognitive_Processes_in_Human_Program_Understanding Metrics
Reverse_Design System_Modularization Domain_Analysis
Recovery_of_Software_Architecture
Metric-Based_Methods_in_Reverse_Design
Human_Oriented_Concept_Assignment_by_Informal_Reasoning
Software_Reverse_Engineering }
}
Fusing Ambiguous Domain Knowledge Slices in a Reverse Engineering Process, Yang Li and Hongji Yang
Available as .
@InProceedings{ li.yang:fusing,
author = {Yang Li and Hongji Yang},
title = {Fusing Ambiguous Domain Knowledge Slices in a Reverse
Engineering Process},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering
Conference (APSEC2000)},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
year = {2000},
editor = {},
chapter = {},
pages = {},
address = {Singapore},
month = {Dec},
url = {},
abstract = {Recovering domain knowledge from legacy code plays an
important role in the new information technology era, which
can be of help for program understanding, system evolution
and software reuse. Traditional methods for domain
knowledge recovery from source code did not sufficiently
address the issue of ambiguity handling, in particular, the
propagation of ambiguity among multiple domain knowledge
slices recovered from source code in software reverse
engineering process. In this paper, we present a novel
approach to recovering unambiguous domain knowledge from
legacy code, where isolated ambiguous domain knowledge
slices are ``fused'' together in an iterative ambiguity
propagation process and hence the disambiguity of these
recovered knowledge slices is increased. },
keywords = {reverse engineering, domain knowledge recovery,
co-operative behaviour, belief revision},
note = {This is the first of this kind of work which deals with
the ambiguity involved in recovering large-scale domain
knowledge from source code.},
class = {Automated_Reverse_Design
Knowledge-Based_Concept_Assignment Using_graphs
Model_Generating Reverse_Specification
Cognitive_Processes_in_Human_Program_Understanding
Reverse_Design Domain_Analysis
Recovery_of_Software_Architectur
Metric-Based_Methods_in_Reverse_Design
Human_Oriented_Concept_Assignment_by_Informal_Reasoning
Intermediate_Representations_of_Source_Code
Software_Reverse_Engineering }
}
Domain Analysis for Transformational Reuse, Melody Moore and Spencer Rugaber
Available as
Melody.Moore.
@InProceedings{ moore.rugaber:domain,
author = {Melody Moore and Spencer Rugaber},
title = {Domain Analysis for Transformational Reuse},
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},
month = {October},
url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Melody.Moore},
abstract = {Domain analysis is an effective technique for enabling
both reuse and reverse engineering. This paper shows how
domain analysis can provide a framework for combining
reverse engineering and forward engineering to implement
transformational reuse for information system user
interfaces.},
keywords = {Reverse engineering domain analysis user interfaces
reuse},
class = {Software_Evolution Reengineering_in_General
User_Interface_Migration Software_Reverse_Engineering
Model_Generating Reverse_Specification Re-Design
Domain_Analysis Alteration }
}
Representation Issues for Reengineering Interactive Systems, Melody Moore
Available as
Melody.Moore.
@Article{ moore:representation,
author = {Melody Moore},
title = {Representation Issues for Reengineering Interactive
Systems},
journal = {ACM Computing Surveys},
year = {1996},
volume = {28},
number = {4es},
month = {December},
url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Melody.Moore},
keywords = {representation user interface reengineering modeling},
class = {Reengineering_in_General User_Interface_Migration
Software_Reverse_Engineering Model_Generating
Reverse_Specification Re-Design Alteration
Intermediate_Representations_of_Source_Code }
}
Rule-based Detection for Reengineering User Interfaces, Melody Moore
Available as
Melody.Moore.
@InProceedings{ moore:rule-based,
author = {Melody Moore },
title = {Rule-based Detection for Reengineering User Interfaces},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Third Working Conference on Reverse
Engineering (WCRE)},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
year = {1996},
month = {November},
url = {http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Melody.Moore},
keywords = {reverse engineering user interfaces rule base knowledge
representations},
class = {Reengineering_in_General User_Interface_Migration
Software_Reverse_Engineering Model_Generating
Reverse_Specification Re-Design Alteration }
}
Architectural Extraction in Reverse Engineering by Prototyping - An Experiment, Sander Tichelaar and Stephane Ducasse and Theo Dirk Meijler
Available as
archiDocumentation.pdf.
@InProceedings{ tichelaar.ducasse.ea:architectural,
author = {Sander Tichelaar and Stephane Ducasse and Theo Dirk
Meijler},
title = {Architectural Extraction in Reverse Engineering by
Prototyping - An Experiment},
booktitle = {Proceedings ESEC - FFSE 97 Workshop on Object-Oriented
Reengineering},
publisher = {Technical University of Vienna},
year = {1997},
editor = {Serge Demeyer and Harald Gall},
month = {August},
url = {http://iamwww.unibe.ch/~tichel/archiDocumentation.pdf},
abstract = {In this workshop paper we present a prototype approach to
help the extraction of architectural information in the
re-engineering process. Commonly the re-engineering
life-cycle has been defined as a succession of the
following tasks: analysis of requirements model capture
"understanding the system" problem detection problem
analysis reorganization and change propagation. We have
evaluated the benefit of a prototyping approach with a
focus on model capture. Although prototyping is a known
approach to evaluate the application feasibility costs
comparison and validation of choices we focus in this paper
on the aspects of prototyping that are helpful for
re-engineering.},
keywords = {architectural extraction prototyping FAMOOS},
note = {This work is part of the ESPRIT project FAMOOS: A
Framework-based Approach for Mastering Object-Oriented
Software Evolution},
class = {Software_Reverse_Engineering Model_Generating
Reverse_Specification Inter-module_Reorganization
Reverse_Design Re-Design Recovery_of_Software_Architecture
Alteration }
}