A Feature Based Methodology for Variable Requirements Reverse Engineering

Reverse Engineering Methodology

As a software system evolves, new features are added and obsolete are removed, the design artifacts gradually diverge from its original design. Many approaches for design recovery or reverse engineering has been suggested, most with some type of support tool. Since a project's time constraints may prohibit use of sophisticated techniques and/or tools due to the learning curves associated with t...

Feature-based reverse engineering of mechanical parts

Reverse engineering of mechanical parts requires extraction of information about an instance of a particular part sufficient to replicate the part using appropriate manufacturing techniques. This is important in a wide variety of situations, since functional CAD models are often unavailable or unusable for parts which must be duplicated or modified. Computer vision techniques applied to three-d...

Constraint Optimization and Feature-Based Model Construction for Reverse Engineering

Reverse engineering techniques can be used to aid in the manufacture of spare parts when original parts inventories are exhausted. For mechanical parts, this process involves sensing the geometry of an existing part, creating a geometric model of the part from the sensed data, and then passing this model to an appropriate CAD/CAM system for manufacturing. Sensing errors and the modeling demands...

A feature-based reverse engineering system using artificial neural networks

Requirements for Information System Reverse Engineering Support

This paper proposes a general architecture for Information systems (or data-centered applications) reverse engineering CASE environments. Recovering the specifications of such applications requires recovering first those of their data, i.e. database reverse engineering (DBRE). First, the paper describes a generic DMS-independent DBRE methodology, then it analyses the main characteristics of DBR...