Handling Large Search Space in Pattern-Based Reverse Engineering

Authors:
Jörg Niere;Jörg P. Wadsack;Lothar Wendehals
Affiliations:
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Venue:
IWPC '03 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Workshop on Program Comprehension
Year:
2003

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Abstract

Large industrial legacy systems are challenges of reverse-engineering activities. Reverse-engineering approaches use text-search tools based on regular expressions or work on graph representations of programs, such as abstract syntax graphs. Analyzing large legacy systems often fail because of the large search space. Our approach to handle large searchspace in pattern-based reverse engineering is to allow imprecise results in means of false positives. We use the theory of fuzzy sets to express impreciseness and present our approachon the example of recovering associations.