Reverse engineering of software threads: A design recovery technique for large multi-process systems

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 11-17

  Wilde, Norman ^a   Casey, Christopher ^a   Vandeville, Joe ^b,c   Trio, Gary ^b   Hotz, Dick ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Design recovery; Multi process systems; Program comprehension; Reverse engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; DESIGN; EFFICIENCY; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

PROGRAM COMPREHENSION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0032188119     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0164-1212(98)10018-3     Document Type: Article

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