Revealer: A lexical pattern matcher for architecture recovery

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 170-178

  Pinzger, Martin ^a   Fischer, Michael ^a   Gall, Harald ^a   Jazayeri, Mehdi ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

architecture recovery; lexical analysis; patterns; Program comprehension; reverse engineering

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; ENGINEERS; EXTRACTION; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SYNTACTICS;

ARCHITECTURE RECOVERY; LEXICAL ANALYSIS; PATTERN DEFINITION; PATTERN LANGUAGES; PATTERNS; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; REVERSE ENGINEERING TECHNIQUES; SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE ACTIVITY;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84952950256     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2002.1173075     Document Type: Conference Paper

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