An evaluation of reverse engineering tool capabilities

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 305-331

  Bellay, Berndt ^a   Gall, Harald ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Call graphs; Reverse engineering tools; Source code parsing; Tool assessment criteria; Tool case study; Tool evaluation

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; REENGINEERING; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

SOURCE CODE PARSING; TOOL ASSESSMENT CRITERIA;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0032156356     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-908x(199809/10)10:5<305::aid-smr175>3.3.co;2-z     Document Type: Article

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