Achievements and challenges in software reverse engineering

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 142-151

  Canfora, Gerardo ^a   Penta, Massimiliano Di ^a   Cerulo, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE REVERSE ENGINEERING;

REVERSE ENGINEERING;

SAILING VESSELS;

EID: 79953667658     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1924421.1924451     Document Type: Review

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