A Hybrid Reverse Engineering Approach Combining Metrics and Program Visualization

Authors:
Serge Demeyer;Stéphane Ducasse;Michele Lanza
Affiliations:
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Venue:
WCRE '99 Proceedings of the Sixth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
Year:
1999

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Abstract

Surprising as it may seem, many of the early adopters of the object-oriented paradigm already face a number of problems typically encountered in large-scale legacy systems. Consequently, reverse engineering techniques are relevant in an object-oriented context as well. This paper investigates a hybrid approach, combining the immediate appeal of visualizations with the scalability of metrics. We validate such a hybrid approach by showing how CodeCrawler -the experimental platform we built- allowed us to understand the program structure of, and identify potential design anomalies in a public domain software system.