White Paper on Reverse Engineering

This paper motivates and describes a research program in the area of reverse engineering being conducted at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Reverse engineering is an emerging interest area ithin the software engineering field. Software engineering itself is concerned with improving the productivity of the software development process and the quality of the systems it produces. However, as currently practiced, the majority of the software development effort is spent on maintaining existing systems rather than developing new ones. Estimates of the proportion of resources and time devoted t aintenance range from 50% to 80%[6]. [via]

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