Analysing Reverse Engineering Techniques for Interactive Systems

Lin, Feifei (Amy)

Analysing Reverse Engineering Techniques for Interactive Systems

dc.contributor.advisor	Bowen, Judith Alyson
dc.contributor.advisor	Reeves, Steve
dc.contributor.author	Lin, Feifei (Amy)
dc.date.accessioned	2012-09-04T04:19:31Z
dc.date.available	2012-09-04T04:19:31Z
dc.date.issued	2012
dc.date.updated	2012-03-07T22:30:46Z
dc.description.abstract	Reverse engineering is the process of discovering a model of a software system by analyzing its structure and functions. Reverse engineering techniques applied to interactive software applications (e.g. applications with user interfaces (UIs)) are very important and significant, as they can help engineers to detect defects in the software and then improve or complete them. There are several approaches, and many different tools, which are able to reverse-engineer software applications into formal models. These can be classified into two main types: dynamic tools and static tools. Dynamic tools interact with the application to find out the run-time behaviours of the software, simulating the actions of a user to explore the system’s state space, whereas static tools focus on static structure and architecture by analysing the code and documents. Reverse engineering techniques are not common for interactive software systems, but nowadays more and more organizations recognize the importance of interactive systems, as the trend in software used in computers is for applications with graphical user interfaces. This has in turn led to a developing interest in reverse engineering tools for such systems. Many reverse engineering tools generate very big models which make analysis slow and resource intensive. The reason for this is the large amount of information that is generated by the existing reverse engineering techniques. Slicing is one possible technique which helps with reducing un-necessary information for building models of software systems. This project focuses on static analysis and slicing, and considers how they can aid reverse engineering techniques for interactive systems, particularly with respect to the generation of a particular set of models, Presentation Models (PModels) and Presentation Interaction Models (PIMs).
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dc.identifier.citation	Lin, F. (Amy). (2012). Analysing Reverse Engineering Techniques for Interactive Systems (Thesis, Master of Science (MSc)). University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10289/6612	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10289/6612
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	University of Waikato
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dc.subject	Reverse engineering techniques
dc.subject	interactive systems
dc.subject	re-engineering techniques
dc.subject	models
dc.subject	slicing techniques
dc.subject	parsing techniques
dc.subject	specification
dc.title	Analysing Reverse Engineering Techniques for Interactive Systems	en
dc.type	Thesis
pubs.place-of-publication	Hamilton, New Zealand	en_NZ
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Waikato
thesis.degree.level	Masters
thesis.degree.name	Master of Science (MSc)