A reverse engineering environment based on spatial and visual software interconnection models
SDE 5 Proceedings of the fifth ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Software development environments
Reverse engineering to the architectural level
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Software engineering
Reverse engineering of legacy systems: a path toward success
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Software engineering
Reverse engineering: a roadmap
Proceedings of the Conference on The Future of Software Engineering
System V Application Binary Interface Intel I860 Processor Supplement
System V Application Binary Interface Intel I860 Processor Supplement
Reverse Engineering and Design Recovery: A Taxonomy
IEEE Software
Automatic source-file dependency structure extraction for C programs
CASCON '94 Proceedings of the 1994 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
Experiments with Clustering as a Software Remodularization Method
WCRE '99 Proceedings of the Sixth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
Component Clustering Based on Maximal Association
WCRE '01 Proceedings of the Eighth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE'01)
View Extraction and View Fusion in Architectural Understanding
ICSR '98 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software Reuse
Towards a software framework for building highly flexible component-based embedded operating systems
EUC'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Embedded and ubiquitous computing
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Reverse engineering of legacy systems is a knowledge-intensive process to reconstruct the understanding of a system. A semi-automatic process that can extract architecture level structure from legacy systems is introduced in this paper. Exact facts related to cross-references among ELF objects are extracted from files automatically, and then partitioned into hierarchical groups by close cooperation between domain experts and an assistant tool DEREF. By resolving the cross references among these groups, the architectural structure is reconstructed and then visualized using auto-layout techniques. A case study on three embedded operating system demonstrates that this process can be used to obtain a comprehensive understanding about legacy systems even without any a priori knowledge about its design.