An industrial experience in reverse engineering

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 275-284

  Moise, Daniel L ^a   Wong, Kenny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer architecture; Computer industry; Data mining; Data models; Documentation; Relational databases; Reverse engineering; Robustness; Software maintenance; Software systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DATA MINING; DATA STRUCTURES; REVERSE ENGINEERING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SYSTEM PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

COMPUTER INDUSTRY; CONCEPTUAL ARCHITECTURE; DOMAIN MODEL; INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE; INDUSTRIAL SCALE; RELATIONAL DATABASE; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOURCE CODES;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

EID: 33845442090     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2003.1287258     Document Type: Conference Paper

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