Pattern-based design recovery with SPOOL
Advances in software engineering
Design and Implementation of a UML-Based Design Repository
CAiSE '01 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
The FermaT Assembler Re-engineering Workbench
ICSM '01 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'01)
Nonvisual tool for navigating hierarchical structures
Assets '04 Proceedings of the 6th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
The SEXTANT Software Exploration Tool
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Identifying and addressing problems in object-oriented framework reuse
Empirical Software Engineering
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Source code investigation is one of the most time consuming activities during software maintenance and evolution, yet currently available tool support suffers from several shortcomings. Browsing is typically limited to low-level elements, investigation is only supported as a one-way activity, and tools provide little help in getting an encompassing picture of the system under examination. In our research, we have developed tool support for design navigation that addresses these shortcomings. A Design Browser allows for flexible browsing of a system's design level representation and for information exchange with a suite of program comprehension tools. The browser is complemented with a Retriever supporting full-text and structural searching. In this paper, we detail these tools and their integration into a reverse engineering environment, present three case studies, and put them into perspective.