An integrated and interactive reverse engineering environment for existing software comprehension

Author

De Carlini, U. ; De Lucia, A. ; Lucca, G. A Di ; Tortora, G.

Author_Institution

Dipartimento di Inf. e Sistemistica, Univ., Italy

fYear

1993

fDate

8-9 Jul 1993

Firstpage

128

Lastpage

137

Abstract

Software comprehension is an incremental process to support the understanding of both the behaviour and the structure of software system. It uses the existing documentation of the system and completes it with information deduced from the code by means of reverse engineering tools. Current reverse engineering tools produce pre-defined sets of reports and, in some cases, furnish answers to fixed kinds of queries, thus being inadequate to completely support software comprehension. An interactive reverse engineering environment is described which supports information extraction and abstraction processes about a software system

Keywords

software maintenance; software tools; abstraction processes; documentation; existing software comprehension; information extraction; reverse engineering environment; software system; understanding; Data mining; Documentation; Reliability theory; Reverse engineering; Software engineering; Software maintenance; Software performance; Software reusability; Software systems; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Program Comprehension, 1993. Proceedings., IEEE Second Workshop on

Conference_Location

Capri

ISSN

1092-8138

Print_ISBN

0-8186-4042-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WPC.1993.263898

Filename

263898