Title :
Why reverse engineering software?
Author_Institution :
Bournemouth Univ., UK
Abstract :
Corporations consider software to be an investment. From the stand-point of an individual software developer, software is a personal creation and a challenge. From the viewpoint of a software maintenance engineer, software is a problem imposed by someone else. How can these different views be reconciled. We consider the role of re-engineering, restructuring and reverse engineering techniques in addressing the dual issues of intellectual ownership and technology obsolescence
Keywords :
industrial property; reverse engineering; systems re-engineering; corporations; intellectual ownership; investment; reverse engineering; software developer; software maintenance engineer; systems re-engineering; systems restructuring; technology obsolescence;
Conference_Titel :
Reverse Engineering for Software Based Systems, IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location :
London
