What Architects Should Know About Reverse Engineering and Rengineering

  • Authors:
  • Rainer Koschke

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Bremen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • WICSA '05 Proceedings of the 5th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Architecture reconstruction is a form of reverse engineering that reconstructs architectural views from an existing system. It is often necessary because a complete and authentic architectural description is not available. This paper puts forward the goals of architecture reconstruction, revisits the technical difficulties we are facing in architecture reconstruction, and presents a summary of a literature survey about the types of architectural viewpoints addressed in reverse engineering research.