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    Reverse engineering involves analyzing a product to understand how it works in order to learn the ideas and technology used in its development. It can be done at many levels to recover lost information, assist with maintenance, facilitate migration to new platforms, and enable software reuse. Reverse engineering tasks include program understanding, redocumentation, design recovery, and identifying reusable components. Different approaches to reverse engineering include restructuring, reverse engineering, and reengineering. Various tools exist to help with reverse engineering tasks like analysis, browsing, object servers, and task-oriented tools.

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    Reverse engineering involves analyzing a product to understand how it works in order to learn the ideas and technology used in its development. It can be done at many levels to recover lost information, assist with maintenance, facilitate migration to new platforms, and enable software reuse. Reverse engineering tasks include program understanding, redocumentation, design recovery, and identifying reusable components. Different approaches to reverse engineering include restructuring, reverse engineering, and reengineering. Various tools exist to help with reverse engineering tasks like analysis, browsing, object servers, and task-oriented tools.

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    Reverse engineering involves analyzing a product to understand how it works in order to learn the ideas and technology used in its development. It can be done at many levels to recover lost information, assist with maintenance, facilitate migration to new platforms, and enable software reuse. Reverse engineering tasks include program understanding, redocumentation, design recovery, and identifying reusable components. Different approaches to reverse engineering include restructuring, reverse engineering, and reengineering. Various tools exist to help with reverse engineering tasks like analysis, browsing, object servers, and task-oriented tools.

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    Reverse engineering involves analyzing a product to understand how it works in order to learn the ideas and technology used in its development. It can be done at many levels to recover lost information, assist with maintenance, facilitate migration to new platforms, and enable software reuse. Reverse engineering tasks include program understanding, redocumentation, design recovery, and identifying reusable components. Different approaches to reverse engineering include restructuring, reverse engineering, and reengineering. Various tools exist to help with reverse engineering tasks like analysis, browsing, object servers, and task-oriented tools.

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    Reverse Engineering

    Shaochun Xu

    Computer Science
    University of Windsor
    Contents
     What is Reverse Engineering (RE)?
     Why do we need Reverse Engineering?
     Scope and Tasks of Reverse Engineering
     Different Approaches
     RE tools
     Conclusions
    What is Reverse
    Engineering ?
     You have an unexpected case:
    • You finished one course project using Java
    • Your program runs OK
    • But, by accident, you delete the java file
    • How to hand in your project?
    What is Reverse
    Engineering ?
     You have an unexpected case:
    • You finished one course project using Java
    • Your program runs OK
    • But, by accident, you delete the java file
    • How to hand in your project?

     Reverse Engineering
    What is Reverse
    Engineering ?

    Waterfall Model of software development

    Requirement
    analysis

    design

    Implementation

    Testing and
    Maintenance
    What is Reverse
    Engineering ?

    Forward Engineering

    Requirements

    Design

    Source Code

    Behavior
    What is Reverse
    Engineering ?

    Forward Engineering Reverse Engineering

    Requirements

    Design

    Source Code

    Behavior
    What is Reverse
    Engineering ?
    Abstraction System

    Reverse Engineering Forward Engineering


    Abstraction Re-Implementation

    Old system New System


    What is Reverse Engineering?
     RE encompasses any activity that is done to
    determine how a product works, to learn the
    ideas and technology that were used in
    developing that product.
     RE can be done at many levels
     RE generally belongs to Software
    Maintenance
    The Early Days of RE
     Law of Software Revolution (Lehman, 1980)
     Fundamental strategies for program comprehension
    (Brooks, 1983)
     Taxonomy of Reverse Engineering
    (Chikofsky&Cross, 1990)
     WCRE (Working Conference on R.E., 1990)
     IWPC (Int. Workshop on Program Comprehension)
    Why do we need RE ?

     Recovery of lost information


    • providing proper system documentation
     Assisting with maintenance
    • identification of side effects and anomalies
     Migration to another hw/sw platform
     Facilitating software reuse
    Why do we need RE ?

     Benefits
    • maintenance cost savings
    • quality improvements
    • competitive advantages
    • software reuse facilitation
    Difficulties of Reverse
    Engineering
     Gap between problem
    /solution domain
     Gap between concrete
    and abstract
     Gap between coherency/disintegration
     Gap between hierarchical/associational
    Scope and Task of Reverse
    Engineering
     program understanding
    Problem/Application
    domain

    Mapping

    Program/Implemen.
    domain
    Scope and Task of Reverse
    Engineering
     Redocumentation and/or document generation
     Recovery of design approach and design
    details at any level of abstraction
     Identifying reusable components and
    components that need restructuring
     Recovering business rules
     Understanding high-level system description.
    Discovery of Abstraction
     Discovery of abstraction in large system
    • maintenance purpose
    • evolution purpose
    • reengineering purpose
    Levels of abstractions
     Application
    • Application concepts, business rule, policies
     Function
    • Logical and functional specification, non-functional requirement
     Structure
    • Data and control flow, dependency graphs
    • Structure and subsystem charts
    • Architectures
     Implementation
    • Symbol tables, source text
    Different Approaches
     Restructuring
    • Transformation from one representation to
    another at the same level,

    Requirements

    Design

    Source code

    Behavior
    Different Approaches
     Reverse Engineering
    • Design Recovery
    – reproduce all the info for understanding the system
    • Re-documentation
    – provide different views of the system
     Re-Engineering
    • first phase --understanding the system
    • second phase--forward engineering
    Different Approaches
    Abstraction System

    Reverse Engineering Forward Engineering


    Abstraction Re-Implementation

    Old system New System


    Reverse Engineering Tools
     Analysis Tools
     Browsers
     Object Server
     Task Oriented Tools
    Example--Java Decompiler
     How to recover bytecode from .class file under
    Unix/Win with JDK?
    % javap -c <filename>
    % javap -help (to see the options)

     Java Decompilers
    • ”ClassCracker” http://www.pcug.org.au/~mayon/
    • “DeCafe Pro" from DeCafe, France at http://decafe.hypermart.net/index.htm
    • “SourceAgain" from Ahpah corp at http://www.ahpah.com
    Example--Java Decompiler
     ClassCracker 2 Interface
    Example--Java Decompiler
     Components of ClassCracker 2
    • Java decompiler
    – retrieves Java source code from Java class files
    • Java disassembler
    – produces Java Assembly Code
    • A Java class file viewer
    – displays Java class file structures.
    Example--Java Decompiler
     Features of ClassCracker 2
    • User visual interface.
    • Can decompile class files within zip or jar files.
    • Conversion mode (JAVA, JASM or JDUMP) is
    selectable
    • A Batc Mode allows multiple class files to be
    decompiled simultaneously
    • more…...
    Example--Java Decompiler
     ClassCracker 2 System Requirements
    • All platform (Window/Linus/Unix)
    • JDK /JRE

     Do not believe it?


    • From myClass_origin.class ==>myClass.java
    • % javac myClass.java (==>myClass.class)
    • % diff myClass.class myClass_origin.class
    Example--Java Decompiler
     ClassCracker 2.0--want to try it?
    • Free download at
    http://www.pcug.org.au/~mayon/classcracker/ccgetdemo.htm
    l
    • Only first three methods are decoded.

     Bridge 1.0---Free
    • http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bridge/8617/
    jad.html
    Conclusions
     Reverse Engineering is a new research area
    among software maintenance
     RE includes activities of understanding the
    system and recovery info from system
     Program understanding is the most important
    subset of Reverse Engineering
     Discovery of abstraction is key issue
    Questions ?

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