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KBSE
1997
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
A Formal Automated Approach for Reverse Engineering Programs with Pointers
Given a program S and a precondition Q, the strongest postcondition, denoted sp(S Q), is defined as the strongest condition that holds after the execution of S, given that S term...
Gerald C. Gannod, Betty H. C. Cheng
KBSE
1998
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
An Automated Approach for Supporting Software Reuse via Reverse Engineering
Formal approaches to software reuse rely heavily upon specificationmatchingcriterion, where asearch query using formal specifications is used to search a library of components ind...
Gerald C. Gannod, Yonghao Chen, Betty H. C. Cheng
ICSM
1996
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Using Informal and Formal Techniques for the Reverse Engineering of C Programs
Reverse engineering of program code is the process of constructing a higher level abstraction of an implementation in order to facilitate the understanding of a system that may be...
Gerald C. Gannod, Betty H. C. Cheng
WCRE
2000
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Reverse Engineering from Assembler to Formal Specifications via Program Transformations
The FermaT transformation system, based on research carried out over the last sixteen years at Durham University, De Montfort University and Software Migrations Ltd., is an indust...
Martin P. Ward
WCRE
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
A Formal Approach for Reverse Engineering: A Case Study
As a program evolves, it becomes increasingly difficult to understand and reason about changes in the source code. Eventually, if enough changes are made, reverse engineering and ...
Gerald C. Gannod, Betty H. C. Cheng