Reverse Engineering and Design Recovery

Chikofsky, E. J., & Cross, J. H. (1990). Reverse Engineering and Design Recovery: A Taxonomy. IEEE Software, 7(1), 13-17.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1990

DOI

10.1109/52.43044

Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/52.43044

Cited from

engineering_design, futurism_foresight

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Backcasting
  • In practice, backcasting underpins work-back scheduling in software engineering, a logic closely related to the design-recovery and reverse-engineering practices Chikofsky and Cross (1990) formalized for software systems.

    This sourceDefines and relates forward engineering, reverse engineering, redocumentation, design recovery, restructuring, and reengineering. Citation details verified, but the paper concerns recovering design abstractions from existing systems, not work-back scheduling from a target date — see flag on marker 088.

• Reverse Engineering
  • The mechanism works because artifacts embody design choices under constraints; by observing those choices and the constraints (cost, manufacturability, physical laws, performance requirements), an analyst can reconstruct the design space and decision logic, then apply that understanding to new problems

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