Re-engineering occurs at two different levels of abstraction. At the business level, re-engineering focuses on the business process with the intent of making changes to improve competitiveness in some area of the business. At the software level, re-engineering examines information systems and applications with the intent of restructuring or reconstructing them so that they exhibit [...]
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Software reverse engineering is done to retrieve the source code of a program because the source code was lost, to study how the program performs certain operations, to improve the performance of a program, to fix a bug (correct an error in the program when the source code is not available), to identify malicious content [...] Reverse engineering is taking apart an object to see how it works in order to duplicate or enhance the object. The practice, taken from older industries, is now frequently used on computer hardware and software. Hardware reverse engineering involves taking apart a device to see how it works. In general, hardware reverse engineering requires a [...] Reverse engineering is the attempt to recapture the top level specification by analyzing the product – I call it an “attempt”, because it is not possible in practice, or even in theory, to recover everything in the original specification purely by studying the product. Reverse engineering is difficult and time consuming, but it is getting [...] |
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