SAAT: Reverse Engineering for Performance Analysis

It is essential to understand both the static and dynamic aspects of existing software for performance analysis. Software reverse engineering reestablishes the structure and behavior of software and helps with that understanding. Researchers in reverse engineering, however, have focused on identifying components and on static relationships. Efforts on performance engineering are being made to represent software behavior and simulate it. However, no one has tried to extract a simulated model from existing software automatically. We introduce SAAT, a tool developed at our research center. SAAT analyzes the dynamic aspects of software and creates a simulated model for performance analysis. We explain how the model can be generated, using a case study of UPnP middleware. This paper contributes to the bridge between performance analysis and reverse engineering