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Reverse Engineering

Presented by, Deepak Raj Gideon Gowtham Jeevaraj Julian Sathyadason

What is Reverse Engineering?


RE encompasses any activity that is done to determine how a product works, to learn the ideas and technology that were used in developing that product.

What is Reverse Engineering?


Forward Engineering Reverse Engineering

Requirements

Design
Source Code Behavior

Why Reverse Engineering?


You have an unexpected case:
You finished one course project using Java Your program runs OK But, by accident, you delete the java file How to hand in your project?

Why Reverse Engineering? [Contd.]


Recovery of lost information
providing proper system documentation

Assisting with maintenance


identification of side effects and anomalies

Migration to another hw/sw platform Facilitating software reuse

Advantages
maintenance cost savings quality improvements competitive advantages software reuse facilitation

Task of Reverse Engineering


Program understanding Redocumentation and/or document generation Recovery of design approach and design details at any level of abstraction Identifying reusable components and components that need restructuring Recovering business rules Understanding high-level system description.

Different Approaches
Reverse Engineering
Design Recovery
reproduce all the info for understanding the system

Re-documentation
provide different views of the system

Re-Engineering
first phase --understanding the system second phase--forward engineering

Reverse Engineering Tools


Analysis Tools Browsers Object Server Task Oriented Tools

Example--Java Decompiler

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