Background--By leveraging cloud services, organizations can deploy their software systems
over a pool of resources. However, organizations heavily depend on their business-critical …

Microservices are gaining tremendous traction in industry and a growing scientific interest in
academia. More and more companies are adopting this architectural style for modernizing …

Legacy systems are business-critical systems that hold the organization's core business
functions developed in a traditional way using monolith architecture and usually deployed …

The ability to evolve software rapidly and reliably is a major challenge for software
engineering. In this introductory chapter we start with a historic overview of the research …

Context Most companies, independently of their size and activity type, are facing the
problem of managing, maintaining and/or replacing (part of) their existing software systems …

Gaining an architectural level understanding of a software system is important for many
reasons. When the description of a system's architecture does not exist, attempts must be …

Teach reverse engineering, program understanding, and software analysis in computer
science, computer engineering, and software engineering curricula. Investigate …

Comprehending and modifying software is at the heart of many software engineering tasks,
and this explains the growing interest that software reverse engineering has gained in the …

This paper describes ongoing work toward the development of a standard software
exchange format (SEF), for exchanging information among tools that analyze computer …

Legacy systems age over time as a consequence of uncontrolled maintenance, thus they
must be evolved while its valuable embedded knowledge is preserved. Software …