Domain Analysis and Reverse Engineering (DARE)

Introduction
Group Members
Readings
Take-Aways
Related Research
Sponser

Introduction

Most existing reverse engineering techniques examine a program from a syntactic point of view, without any understanding of the program's application domain.

The Domain Analysis and Reverse Engineering (DARE) Project is an attempt to augment reverse engineering with knowledge of a program's application domain. By building and using application domain models, we hope to increase the scope of what can be recoved from existing code and reduce the effort required to perform the recovery.

Group Members

Readings

A Bibtex bibliography of papers relating to Domain Analysis.
The Final Report for the DARE project.
An architectural description for the Dowswer, a follow-on to the DARE project.

Take-Aways

A copy of the software used to implement the key-word searcher described in the final report is available for downloading.

Related Research

Sponser

This project is sponsored by the Software Technology Branch of the Army Research Laboratory.

This page last modified on 4 December 1997.