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6. Legacy Systems, Reverse Engineer and Re-engineering--- Reverse Engineering Definition: Reversing Engineering The process of analyzing a subject system to identify the system’s components and their inter-relationships, and to create representations of the system in another form or at higher levels of abstraction.( by Chikofsky Cross) Two types of Reverse Engineering: Redocumentation: the creation or revision of a semantically equivalent representation within the same relative abstraction layer; Design Recovery: involves identifying meaningful higher level abstractions beyond those obtained directly by examining the system itself. The main motivation is to provide help in program comprehension 6. Legacy Systems, Reverse Engineer and Re-engineering--- Reverse Engineering reverse engineering has been successfully applied include identifying reusable assets finding objects in procedural programs discovering architectures deriving conceptual data models detecting duplications transforming binary programs into source code renewing user interfaces parallelizing sequential programs Translating, downsizing, migrating and wrapping legacy code 6. Legacy Systems, Reverse Engineer and Re-engineering--- Re-engineering “Software Re-engineering is any activity that: (1) improves one’s understanding of software, or (2) prepares or improves the software itself, usually for increased maintainability, reusability, or evolvability.” Re-engineering can involve: Re-documenting Organising and restructuring the system Translating to a more modern programming language Modifying the structure of the data The old system forms the specification for the new system 6. Legacy Systems, Reverse Engineer and Re-engineering---Reverse engineering and re-engineering. * * * Sommerville figure 21.7 Refer Jan’s diagram from Software Evolution text by Arthur * * Show a change request * * * * * * * * * * Refer Sommerville figure 21.13 * * * Sommerville p 502 – 509 including figures 3. The