A Reverse-Engineering Environment Framework

Abstract

This report describes a framework for reverse engineering environments used to aid program understanding. The framework is based on a descriptive model that categorizes important support mechanism features based on a hierarchy of attributes. The attributes include cognitive model support, reverse-engineering tasks, canonical activities that are characteristic of the reverse-engineering process, quality attributes supported by the reverse-engineering environment, and miscellaneous characteristics.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA343688

Entities

People

  • Scott Tilley

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Cognition
  • Commerce
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Data Modeling
  • Databases
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Information Science
  • Knowledge Management
  • Reverse Engineering
  • Software Development
  • User Interface

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Software Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design