Title :
REportal: a Web-based portal site for reverse engineering
Author :
Mancoridis, Spiros ; Souder, Timothy S. ; Chen, Yih-Farn ; Gansner, Emden R. ; Korn, Jeffrey L.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA
fDate :
6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We present a Web-based portal site for the reverse engineering of software systems, called REportal (Reverse Engineering portal). REportal enables authorized users to upload their code to a secure Web site and then, through the guidance of wizards, to browse and analyze their code. Currently, the portal services include code analysis, browsing, querying and design extraction for C, C++ and Java programs. The REportal services are implemented by several reverse engineering tools that our team has developed over the years. With this work, we aim to assist professional software engineers, educators and other researchers who need to analyze code. Specifically, we present a technology that provides a simple and easily accessible user interface to a number of reverse engineering tools. More importantly, this technology saves the user from the time and effort required to install, administer and integrate these tools
Keywords :
authorisation; information resources; program diagnostics; reverse engineering; user interfaces; C programs; C++ programs; Java programs; REportal; World Wide Web-based portal site; authorized users; code analysis; code browsing; code uploading; design extraction; querying; reverse engineering; secure Web site; user interface; wizards; Computer science; Data mining; Java; Mathematics; Portals; Reverse engineering; Software engineering; Software systems; Software tools; User interfaces;
Conference_Titel :
Reverse Engineering, 2001. Proceedings. Eighth Working Conference on
Conference_Location :
Stuttgart
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1303-4
DOI :
10.1109/WCRE.2001.957826