Slicing based reverse engineering of business applications

Abstract

Without altering the skeletal framework of the software system, reverse engineering enables an in-depth understanding of the software system by retrieving the most relevant properties of it. This has tremendously increased the need to design effective methods for performing reverse engineering in software system. In this paper, we introduce a forward slicing approach for performing reverse engineering in business applications. The relevance of other slicing methods in reverse engineering is also discussed. An appealing aspect of this work is that, using forward slicing in business applications makes the whole reverse engineering process more direct and effective. Some illustrations which highlight the easiness of the proposed slicing method are also provided to affirm the significance of this work. © 2012 IEEE.