Yih-Farn Chen, Emden R. Gansner, and Eleftherios Koutsofios, "A C++ Data Model Supporting Reachability Analysis and Dead Code Detection", IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering, vol. 24, no. 9, September 1998.  Home/Search   Document Details and Download   Summary   Related Articles

....Group (SWAG) Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, CANADA email: #migod,ehslee# plg.uwaterloo.ca ABSTRACT As large systems evolve, their architectural integrity tends to decay. Reverse engineering tools, such as PBS [7, 19] Rigi [15] and Acacia [5], can be used to acquire an understanding of a system s as built architecture and in so doing regain control over the system. A problem that has impeded the widespread adoption of reverse engineering tools is the tight coupling of their subtools, including source code fact extractors, ....

.... market share to competitors [11] However, the architectural integrity of such systems often decays over time as new features are added, defects are fixed, performance is tuned, and support for new platforms is added [18, 22] Reverse engineering tools such as PBS [7, 19] Rigi [15] and Acacia [5], can be used by developers to regain an understanding of the as built software architecture of a system, and to reconcile it with the conceptual or intended software architecture [9] However, most such tools are comprised of tightly coupled subcomponents, such as source code fact ....

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Yih-Farn Chen, Emden R. Gansner, and Eleftherios Koutsofios, "A C++ Data Model Supporting Reachability Analysis and Dead Code Detection", IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering, vol. 24, no. 9, September 1998.

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