What Architects Should Know About Reverse Engineering and Rengineering
Rainer Koschke · 2006
Architecture reconstruction is a form of reverse engineering that reconstructs architectural views from an existing system. It is often necessary because a complete and authentic architectural description is not available. This paper puts forward the goals of architecture reconstruction, revisits the technical difficulties we are facing in architecture reconstruction, and presents a summary of a literature survey about the types of architectural viewpoints addressed in reverse engineering research.