Controller Area Network (CAN) is a masterless serial bus designed and widely used for the
exchange of mission and time-critical information within commercial vehicles. In-vehicle …

Achievements and challenges in software reverse engineering Page 1 142 communications of
the acm | april 2011 | vol. 54 | no. 4 review articles the need FOR changing existing software has …

Software engineers often use high-level models(for instance, box and arrow sketches) to
reason and communicate about an existing software system. One problem with high-level …

A legacy information system represents a massive, long-term business investment.
Unfortunately, such systems are often brittle, slow and non-extensible. Capturing legacy …

The documentation is missing or obsolete, and the original developers have departed. Your
team has limited understanding of the system, and unit tests are missing for many, if not all …

The artifacts constituting a software system often drift apart over time. We have developed
the software reflexion model technique to help engineers perform various software …

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 …

Program comprehension research can be characterized by both the theories that provide
rich explanations about how programmers comprehend software, as well as the tools that …

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 …