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July/August 2004 (Vol. 21, No. 4)
pp. 45-53
Model-Driven Reverse Engineering
Spencer Rugaber, Georgia Institute of Technology
Kurt Stirewalt, Michigan State University
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Managing software maintenance projects is difficult, particularly when the project being managed includes programs written by a different group or even a different company. Reverse engineering is an attractive technique to help understand a foreign program, but managing reverse-engineering efforts is difficult due to the lack of fixed standards for productivity and quality. Model-driven reverse engineering can help solve this problem. In particular, MDRE uses models to predict how much time a reverse-engineering effort will require and to provide a quality standard to evaluate that effort. This, in turn, enables better effort prediction and quality evaluation, reducing development risk. This article describes a particular approach to MDRE and presents an example of its use.
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Index Terms- reverse engineering, models, algebraic specifications, design representation, domain engineering
Citation:
Spencer Rugaber, Kurt Stirewalt,
"Model-Driven Reverse Engineering,"
IEEE Software,
vol. 21,
no. 4,
pp. 45-53,
Jul/Aug,
2004
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