ART: An Architectural Reverse Engineering Environment

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 339-364

  Fiutem, Roberto ^a,c,d   Antoniol, Giulio ^a,e   Tonella, Paolo ^a,e   Merlo, Ettore ^b,f,g  

^a ITC IRST   (Italy)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c SODALIA spa   (Italy)

^d POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clich ; Flow analysis; Matching; Program understanding; Reverse architecturing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; LEGACY SYSTEMS; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

PROGRAM UNDERSTANDING; SOFTWARE PACKAGE ARCHITECTURAL RECOVERY TOOL (ART);

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0033340014     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-908x(199909/10)11:5<339::aid-smr196>3.0.co;2-i     Document Type: Article

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