A framework for classifying and comparing software reverse engineering and design recovery techniques

摘要: Several techniques have been suggested for supporting reverse engineering and design recovery activities. While many of these cataloged in various collections surveys, the evaluation corresponding support tools has focused primarily on their usability supported source languages, mostly ignoring appropriateness by-products a tool facilitating particular types maintenance tasks. In this paper, we describe criteria that can be used to evaluate based semantic quality, where quality measures ability by-product convey certain behavioral information. We use review, compare, contrast several representative approaches.