Reuse in reverse engineering

In this paper, we present a framework for reverse engineering allowing the integration and interaction of different analysis and visualization tools. The framework architecture that we propose uses a dynamic type system to guarantee the proper exchange of data between the tools and a set of wrapper classes to handle their communication. This allows for an easy and secure integration of tools that have originally not been designed to work together. In this sense, existing tools can be (re-)used and integrated. As a proof of concept we also present our own instantiation of the proposed framework architecture.