Software inspection is a known technique for improving software quality. It involves carefully
examining the code, the design, and the documentation of software and checking these for …

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

The scope of software visualization tools which exist for the navigation, analysis and
presentation of software information varies widely. One class of tools, which we refer to as …

Because a system's software architecture strongly influences its quality attributes such as
modifiability, performance, and security, it is important to analyze and reason about that …

Software engineering research has focused primarily on software construction, neglecting
software maintenance and evolution. Observed is a shift in research from synthesis to …

Legacy software systems are typically complex, geriatric, and difficult to change, having
evolved over decades and having passed through many developers. Nevertheless, these …

Most software documentation typically describes the program at the algorithm and data-
structure level. For large legacy systems, understanding the system's architecture is more …

Shimba is a reverse engineering environment to support the understanding of Java software
systems. Shimba integrates the Rigi and SCED tools to analyze and visualize the static and …

Abstract Changes to a software system during implementation and maintenance can cause
the architecture of a system to deviate from its documented architecture. If design documents …

Understanding source code is an important task in the maintenance of software systems.
Legacy systems are not only limited to procedural languages, but are also written in object …