Investigating reverse engineering technologies for the CAS program understanding project. (IBM Toronto Software Solutions Laboratory Centre for Advanced Studies)

From: IBM Systems Journal | Date: September 1, 1994| Author: Buss, Erich; De Mori, Renato; Gentleman, W. Morven; Henshaw, John; Johnson, Howard; Kontogiannis, Kostas; Merlo, Ettore; Muller, Hausi A.; Mylopoulos, John; Paul, Santanu; Prakash, Atul; Stanley, Martin; Tilley, Scott R.; Troster, Joel; Wong, Kenny | Copyright information

The IBM Toronto Software Solutions Laboratory Centre for Advanced Studies developed a research project on program understanding that focused on reverse engineering technologies. It was shown that the information technology and software industries have to integrate efforts in managing the problems of software evolution and the understanding of legacy systems. A unified environment for multifaceted analysis is suggested for evaluating legacy systems.

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