Taxonomy Item Reverse Design

The objective of reverse design is to get a design description out of the source code, i.e. to abstract from coding details. There are two strategies to achieve it:

• Tools present the source code in a way that a maintainer can make the abstraction. Since the computer only retrieves information that is entirely included in the source code this strategy is called fundamental.
• Tools make the abstraction on their own. They are analyzing the source code in using information from a knowledge base. This strategy is called knowledge-based .

• Encapsulation and Finding Objects in Legacy Code
• Metric-Based Methods in Reverse Design
• Fundamental Methods in Reverse Design
• Functional Abstraction
• Knowledge-Based Concept Assignment
• System Modularization
• Process Models for Reverse Design
• Configuration Structures
• General Information about Reverse Design
• Recovery of Software Architecture