Research on development of reverse engineering
Ping Chen · Jisuanji gongcheng yu sheji · 2004
With the development of software industry, more and more legacy applications must be maintained and improved. Reverse engineering has become one of the crucial techniques in tackling the problem of the maintenance and evolution of legacy systems. The terminology of reverse engineering is introduced. The progresses of reverse engineering is given. By analyzing the existing reverse engineering tools, a discussion of the drawbacks of reverse engineering and a comment on the future of reverse engineering are presented.