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X Preface answering specific questions on the function, structure, and behavior of the artifact under study. Secondly, new data sources, such as 3D scanners, cell microarrays, and a large variety of sensors, has made new types of data sources available from which detailed insights about mechanical and living structures can be extracted. Given the above factors, reverse engineering applications, techniques, and tools have shown a strong development and diversification. However, in the same time, the types of questions asked by end users and stakeholders have become increasingly complex. For example, while a decade ago the reverse engineering of a software application would typically imply extracting the static structure of an isolated code base of tens of thousands of lines of code written in a single programming language, current software reverse engineering aims at extracting structural, behavioral, and evolutionary patterns from enterprise applications of millions of lines of code written in several programming languages, running on several machines, and developed by hundreds of individuals over many years. Similarly, reverse engineering the geometric and mechanical properties of physical shapes has evolved from the extraction of coarse surface models to the generation of part-whole descriptions of complex articulated shapes with the submillimeter accuracy required for manufacturing processes. This has fostered the creation of new reverse engineering techniques and tools. This book gives an overview of recent advances in reverse engineering techniques, tools, and application domains. The aim of the book is, on the one hand, to provide the reader with a comprehensive sample of the possibilities that reverse engineering currently offers in various application domains, and on the other hand to highlight the current research-level and practical challenges that reverse engineering techniques and tools are faced. Structure of this book To provide a broad view on reverse engineering, the book is divided into three parts: software reverse engineering, reverse engineering shapes, and reverse engineering in medical and life sciences. Each part contains several chapters covering applications, techniques, and tools for reverse engineering relevant to specific use-cases in the respective application domain. An overview of the structure of the book is given below. Part 1: Software Reverse Engineering In part 1, we look at reverse engineering the function, structure, and behavior of large software-intensive applications. The main business driver behind software reverse engineering is the increased effort and cost related to maintainting existing software applications and designing new applications that wish to reuse existing legacy software. As this cost increases, getting detailed information on the structure, run-time behavior, and quality attributes of existing software applications becomes highly valuable. In Chapter 1, Kienle et al. Give a comprehensive overview of reverse engineering tools and techniques applied to embedded software. Apart from detailing the various pro’s
Preface XI and con’s related to the applicability of existing reverse engineering technology to embedded software, they also discuss the specific challenges that embedded software poses to classical reverse engineering, and outline potential directions for improvement. In Chapter 2, Campos et al. Present an example of reverse engineering aimed at facilitating the development and maintenance of software applications that include a substantial user interface source code. Starting from the observation that understanding (and thus maintenance) of user interface code is highly challenging due to the typically non-modular structure of such code and its interactions with the remainder of the application, they present a technique and tool that is able to extract user interface behavioral models from the source code of Java applications, and show how these models can be used to reason about the application’s usability and implementation quality. In Chapter 3, Favre presents a model-driven architecture approach aimed at supporting program understanding during the evolution and maintenance of large software systems and modernization of legacy systems. Using a combination of static and dynamic analysis, augmented with formal specification techniques, and a new metamodeling language, they show how platform-independent models can be extracted from object-oriented (Java) source code and refined up to the level that they can be reused in different development contexts. In Chapter 4, Rama et al. Show how platform-independent models can be extracted from large, complex business applications. Given that such applications are typically highly heterogeneous, e.g. involve several programming languages and systems interacting in a distributed manner, fine-grained reverse engineering as usually done for desktop or embedded applications may not be optimal. The proposed approach focuses on information at the service level. By reusing the platform-independent models extracted, the authors show how substantial cost savings can be done in the development of new applications on the IBM WebSphere and SAP NetWeaver platforms. In Chapter 5, Li et al. present a different aspect of software reverse engineering. Rather than aiming to recover information from source code, they analyze the behavior of several peer-to-peer (P2P) protocols, as implemented by current P2P applications. The aim is to reverse engineer the high-level behavior of such protocols, and how this behavior depends on various parameters such as user behavior and application settings, in order to optimize the protocols for video streaming purposes. As compared to the previous chapters, the target of reverse engineering is here the behavior of an entire set of distributed P2P applications, rather than the structure or behavior of a single program. Part 2: Reverse Engineering Shapes In part 2, our focus changes from software artifacts to physical shapes. Two main usecases are discussed here. First, methods and techniques for the reverse-engineering of
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