The FermaT assembler re-engineering workbench

Author

Ward, M.P.

Author_Institution

Software Technol. Res. Lab., De Montfort Univ., Leicester, UK

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

659

Lastpage

662

Abstract

Research into the working practices of software engineers has shown the need for integrated browsing and searching tools which include graphical visualisations linked back to the source code under investigation. In addition, for assembler maintenance and re-engineering there is an even greater need for sophisticated control flow analysis, data flow analysis, slicing and migration technology. All these technologies are provided by the FermaT Workbench: an industrial-strength assembler re-engineering workbench consisting of a number of integrated tools for program comprehension, migration and re-engineering. The various program analysis and migrations tools are based on research carried out over the last sixteen years at Durham University, De Montfort University and Software Migrations Ltd., and make extensive use of program transformation theory

Keywords

data flow analysis; program assemblers; reverse engineering; software tools; FermaT Workbench; assembler maintenance; control flow analysis; data flow analysis; formal methods; graphical visualisations; integrated browsing; integrated tools; migration; program transformation; re-engineering; reverse engineering; slicing; Algorithms; Assembly systems; Data analysis; Database systems; Programming profession; Reverse engineering; Software tools; Switches; Unified modeling language; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance, 2001. Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Florence

ISSN

1063-6773

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1189-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSM.2001.972783

Filename

972783