The size and complexity of industrial strength software systems are constantly increasing.
This means that the task of managing a large software project is becoming even more …

Many of the existing approaches in Software Comprehension focus on program structure or
external documentation. However, by analyzing formal information the informal semantics …

To maintain and understand large applications, it is important to know their architecture. The
first problem is that unlike classes and packages, architecture is not explicitly represented in …

Nowadays, software systems remain useful and competitive; entail the inevitable need to
change over time and to be adapted to new technologies, platforms, and architectures …

Reverse engineering is the process of recovering a projectpsilas components and the
relationships between them with the goal of creating representations of the project at a …

Reverse engineering is an active area of research concerned with the development of
techniques and tools that support the understanding of software systems. All the techniques …

The Rigi environment is a mature research tool that provides functionality to reverse
engineer software systems. With Rigi large systems can be analyzed, interactively explored …

To maintain and understand large applications, it is crucial to know their architecture. The
first problem is that unlike classes and packages, architecture is not explicitly represented in …

Abstract Architecture recovery is an activity applied to a system whose initial architecture has
eroded. When the system is large, the user must use dedicated tools to support the recovery …

Abstract Conventional wisdom on Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) suggests that this
software discipline is the key to achieve superior automation, whether it be refactoring …