Software artifacts recovery using abstract regular expressions

INMIC2007 - 11th IEEE International Multitopic Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Rasool, Ghulam ^a   Asif, Nadim ^a  

^a Process and Energy Systems Engineering Center PRESTIGE

Author keywords

Artifact recovery; Pattern matching; Regular expressions; Reverse engineering; Source code analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT RECOVERY; DESIGN RECOVERY; EASE-OF-USE; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; LEGACY SOFTWARES; PATTERN-MATCHING TECHNIQUE; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; REGULAR EXPRESSIONS; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ARTIFACTS; SOFTWARE COMPONENTS; SOURCE CODE ANALYSIS; SOURCE CODING; TEXT FILES;

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION THEORY; LEGACY SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PATTERN MATCHING; SYNTACTICS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 51849088655     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INMIC.2007.4557710     Document Type: Conference Paper

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