This page contains citation information and links to PDF versions of papers written by the Reverse Engineering group at Georgia Tech.
aaai.pospap.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T Program Comprehension for Reverse Engineering
%J AAAI Workshop on AI and Automated Program Understanding
%C San Jose, California
%D July 1992
%P 106-110
ambient.pdf
%A Chris Parnin
%A Carsten Goerg
%T Design Guidelines for Ambient Software Visualization in the Workplace
%J 4th International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis, VISSOFT 2007
%C Banff, Alberta Canada
%D June 2007
%P 18-25
annals.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T The Use of Domain Knowledge in Program Understanding
%J Annals of Software Engineering
%V 9
%D 2000
%P 143-192
arch_elements.pdf
%A Robert Waters
%A Spencer Rugaber
%A Gregory Abowd
%T Architectural Element Matching Using Concept Analysis
%J Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'99).
arch_synthesis.pdf
%A Robert Waters
%A Gregory Abowd
%T Architectural Synthesis: Integrating Multiple Architectural Perspectives
%J Proceedings of the Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE)
%D 1999.
are.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%A Terry Shikano
%A Kurt Stirewalt
%A Adequate Reverse-Engineering
%J Automated Software Engineering Conference
%D 2001
rre.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%A Terry Shikano
%T Reverse Reverse-Engineering
%D 2001
voat.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%A Rocky Dunlap
%A Leo Mark
%A Sameer Ansari
%T Managing Software Complexity and Variability in Coupled Climate Models
%J IEEE Software
%V 28
%N 6
%D November-December, 2011
%P 43-48
cogmodels.pdf
%A Tim Tiemens
%T Cognitive Models of Program Comprehension
%I Software Engineering Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology
%D December 8, 1989
comments.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T An Example of Program Understanding
%D December 1997
%R GIT-CC-98-14
conflicts.pdf
%A Stephen B. Ornburn
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T Reverse Engineering: Resolving Conflicts between Expected and Actual Software Designs
%J Proceedings of the Conference on Software Maintenance
%C Orlando, Florida
%D November 1992
%P 32-40
recognition.pdf
%A Stephen B. Ornburn
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T Recognition and Representation of Design Decisions
%R GIT-SERC-89/06
%I Software Engineering Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology
%C Atlanta, Georgia
%D June 1989
CtoSC.pdf
%A Bret Johnson
%T Reverse Engineering with a CASE Tool
%R SRC-TR-91-07
%I Software Research Center, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
%D December 1991
dab.pdf
%A David A. Busse
%T How Changes Are Reflected in a Software Architecture
%R GIT-CC-95-50
%I College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
%D December 1995
dare.final.pdf
%A Richard Clayton
%A Spencer Rugaber
%A Linda Wills
%T Domain Based Design Documentation and Component Reuse and their Application to a System Evolution Record
%R Final Report, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
%D October 1997
%O http://www.cc.gatech.edu/reverse/dare/final_report/index.html
dare.wp.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T Domain Analysis and Reverse Engineering
%D January, 1994
designStudies.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T Design Studies in Software Engineering Courses
%J SOD’07 Science of Design Symposium
%C Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, USA
%D March 22-24, 2007
%P 28-29
%O http://dl.acm.org.prx.library.gatech.edu/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1496645&ftid=615910&dwn=1&#URLTOKEN#
detection.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%A Kurt Stirewalt
%A Linda Wills
%T Detecting Interleaving
%J International Conference on Software Maintenance
%D October 16-20, 1995
%C Nice, France
%P 265-274
domain.pdf
%A Jean-Marc DeBaud
%A Bijith M. Moopen
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T Domain Analysis and Reverse Engineering
%J Proceedings of the 1994 International Conference on Software Maintenance
%P 326-335
domain-based-RE.pdf
%A Jean-Marc DeBaud
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T A Software Re-engineering Method Using Domain Models
%J International Conference on Software Maintenance
%C Opio (Nice), France
%D October 16-20, 1995
%P 204-213
dowser_long.pdf
%A Richard Clayton
%A Spencer Rugaber
%A Linda Wills
%T Dowsing: A Tools Framework for Domain-Oriented Browsing Software Artifacts
%I College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
%R GIT-CC-98-23
%D September 1998
dowser_short.pdf
%A Richard Clayton
%A Spencer Rugaber
%A Linda Wills
%T Dowsing: A Tools Framework for Domain-Oriented Browsing Software Artifacts
%J Automated Software Engineering 1998
%D May 1998
dynimpl.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%A R. E. Kurt Stirewalt
%T Position Paper: The Tradeoff between Dependability and Efficiency in Embedded Systems
ectropic.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%A Mark Guzdial
%T Ectropic Software
%J Workshop on Software Change and Evolution (SCE'99)
%C Los Angeles, California
%D May 17, 1999
edcs.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T A Tool Suite for Evolving Legacy Software
%J International Conference on Software Maintenance'99
%D August 30 - September 3, 1999
%C Oxford, England
encyc.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T Program Understanding
%J Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology
%E Allen Kent and James G. Williams
%V 35
%I Marcel Dekker
%P 341-368
%D 1996
enriching.pdf
%A Chris Parnin
%A Carsten Goerg
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T Enriching Revision History with Interactions
%J International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories
%C Shanghai, China
%D 2006
flexible.pdf
%A Linda M. Wills
%T Flexible Control for Program Recognition
%J Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
%C Baltimore, Maryland
%D May 1993
%P 134-143
gener.pdf
%A Kurt Stirewalt
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T The Model Composition Problem
%J Automated Software Engineering
%V 7
%N 2
%P 101-124
ggram.pdf
%A Linda M. Wills
%T Using Attributed Flow Graph Parsing to Recognize Programs
%J Int. Workshop on Graph Grammars and Their Application to Computer Science
%C Williamsburg, Virginia
%D November 1994
hicss.pdf
%A Sastry Nanduri
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T Requirements Validation via Natural Language Parsing
%J Proceedings of the 28th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
%C Wailea, Maui, Hawaii
%D January 3-6, 1995
compcon.pdf
%A S. Rugaber
%T Requirements for a hypertext software maintenance system
%J COMPCON Spring 89. Thirty-Fourth IEEE Computer Society International Conference: Intellectual Leverage
%D February 27, 1989
idl.pdf
%A R. Clayton
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T An IDL Evaluation
%R SRC-TR-92/04
%I Software Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology
%D June 1992
htasm.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T Hypertext and Software Maintenance
%J Second International Workshop on Computer-Aided Software Engineering Advance Working Papers (CASE'88)
%V 1
%C Cambridge, Massachusetts
%D July 12-15, 1988
%P 15-2417-1527
icsm97.pdf
%A Gregory Abowd
%A Ashok Goel
%A Dean F. Jerding
%A Michael McCracken
%A Melody Moore
%A J. William Murdock
%A Colin Potts
%A Spencer Rugaber
%A Linda Wills
%T MORALE--Mission Oriented Architectural Legacy Evolution
%J Proceedings International Conference on Software Maintenance'97
%C Bari, Italy
%D September 29-October 3, 1997
infra.pospap.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%A Linda Wills
%T Position Paper on Research Infrastructure for Reengineering
%J 5th Internation Workshop on Program Comprehension
%C Dearborn, Michigan
%D May 28-30, 1997
infrastructure.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%A Linda M. Wills
%T Creating a Research Infrastructure for Reengineering
%J 3rd Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
%D November 8-10, 1996
%C Monterey, California
interleaving.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%A Kurt Stirewalt
%A Linda Wills
%T The Interleaving Problem in Program Understanding
%J 2nd Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
%C Toronto, Ontario, Canada
%D July 14-16 1995
%P 166-175
iwpc99.pdf
%A Margaret Francel
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T The Relationship of Slicing and Debugging to Program Understanding
%J Proceedings of the International Workshop on Program Comprehension
%C Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
%D May 1999
%P 106-113
jase.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%A Kurt Stirewalt
%A Linda Wills
%T Understanding Interleaved Code
%J Journal of Automated Software Engineering
%V 3
%D 1996
%P 47-76
jmis.pdf
%A Sastry Nanduri
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T Requirements Validation via Automated Natural Language Parsing
%J Journal of Management Information Systems
%V 12
%N 3
%D Winter 1995-96
%P 9-19
%O Journal version of hicss.pdf
k-cut.pdf
%A Christopher Jermaine
%T Computing Program Modularizations Using the k-cut Method
%J Proceedings of the Sixth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
%P 224-234
%D October 6-8, 1999
kunits.pdf
%A Richard Clayton
%A Spencer Rugaber
%A Linda Wills
%T On the Knowledge Required to Understand a Program
%J The Fifth IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering'98
%C Honolulu, Hawaii
%D October 1998
legacy.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%A Jim White
%T Restoring a Legacy: Lessons Learned
%J IEEE Software
%V 15
%N 4
%D July-August 1998
%P 28-33
legacy-RE.pdf
%A Jean-Marc Debaud
%T Using Executable Domain Models to Implement Legacy Software Re-engineering
%O Presented at OOPSLA'95 Workshop on Legacy Systems and Object Technology
%C Austin Texas
%D October 16th 1995
mastermind-checking.pdf
%A Kurt Stirewalt
%A Spencer Rugaber
%A Gregory Abowd
%T Automating the Design of Specification Interpreters
%O Submitted to ACM SIGSOFT Fourth Symposium on the Foundatons of Sofware Engineering
%C San Francisco, California
%D October 16-18, 1996
migration_strategy.pdf
%A Gregory Abowd
%A Ashok Goel
%A Mike McCracken
%A Melody Moore
%A Colin Potts
%A Spencer Rugaber
%A Linda Wills
%T Mission-Oriented Legacy System Evolution Through Architectural Recovery and Evaluation
%J Proceedings of the ICSE-97 Workshop on Migration Strategies for Legacy Systems
%E A. Cimitile, H. Muller, and R. R. Klosch (eds.)
%P 14-18
%C Boston, Massachusetts
%D May, 1997
%O Technical University of Vienna Technical Report TUV-1841-97-06.
mmase.pdf
%A Kurt Stirewalt
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T Automating UI Generation by Model Composition
%J Automated Software Engineering 1998
%D October 1998
%C Honolulu, Hawaii
mode_components.pdf
%A Kurt Stirewalt
%T Separating Concerns in Direct Manipulation User Interfaces
%J Automated Software Engineering 1999
%D October 1999
%C Cocoa Beach, Florida
modelDriven.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%A Kurt Stirewalt
%T Model-Driven Reverse Engineering
%J IEEE Software
%V 21
%N 4
%D July-August 2004
%P 45-53
morale_tools.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T A Tool Suite for Evolving Legacy Software
%J International Conference on Software Maintenance'99
%D August 30 - September 3, 1999
%C Oxford, England
mosaic.pdf
%A Richard Clayton
%A Spencer Rugaber
%A Lyman Taylor
%A Linda Wills
%T A Case Study of Domain-based Program Understanding
%J 5th Workshop on Program Comprehension
%C Dearborn, Michigan
%D May 28-30, 1997
%P 102-110
nasa.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%A Kurt Stirewalt
%A Linda Wills
%T The Detection and Extraction of Interleaving Code Segments
%R GIT-CC-95-49
%I College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
%D December 20 1995
%O NASA Final Report
noseprints.pdf
%A Chris Parnin
%A Carsten Goerg
%A Ogechi Nnadi
%T A Catalogue of Lightweight Visualizations to Support Code Smell Inspection
%J International Symposium on Software Visualization (SoftVis)
%C Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany
%D 2008
paste.pdf
%A Dean Jerding
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T Extraction of Architectural Connections from Event Traces
%J Submitted to ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering (PASTE'98)
%D June 16, 1998
%C Montreal, Canada
quick.pdf
%A Steve Ornburn
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T A Quick Tools Strategy for Program Analysis and Software Maintenance
%J Proceedings of the Conference on Software Maintenance
%C Orlando, Florida
%D November 1992
%P 206-213
acmsec.pdf
%A Margaret Francel
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T Fault Localization Using Execution Traces
%J Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Southeast Conference
%C Raleigh, North Carolina
%D April 8-10, 1992
%P 60-76
tr9101.pdf
%A Margaret Francel
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T Symptom Based Error Detection
%R GIT-SRC-91/01
%I Software Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology
%D January 1991
For a reprint of this paper send an email request to linda@cc.gatech.edu.
%A Linda M. Wills
%T Automated Program Recognition by Graph Parsing
%R MIT-AI-TR 1358
%I MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Doctoral Dissertation
%D July, 1992
refactoringpractice.pdf
%A Emerson Murphy-Hill
%A Chris Parnin
%A Andrew Black
%T How We Refactor, and How We Know It
%J International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
%C Vancouver, Canada
%D 2009
repr.pdf
%A Richard Clayton
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T The Representation Problem in Reverse Engineering
%J Proceedings of the First Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
%C Baltimore, Maryland
%D May 21-23, 1993
resumptionstrategies.pdf
%A Chris Parnin
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T Resumption Strategies for Interrupted Programming Tasks
%J International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC)
%C Vancouver, Canada
%D 2009
rex2007.pdf
%A Daniel Popescu
%A Spencer Rugaber
%A Nenad Medvidovic
%A Daniel M. Berry
%T Improving the Quality of Requirements Specifications via Automatically Created Object-Oriented Models
%J 14th Monterey Workshop on Requirements Analysis
%D September 10-13, 2007
%C Monterey, California
roa.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T Cataloging Design Abstractions
%J Workshop on the Role of Abstraction in Software Engineering
%D May 21, 2006
%C Shanghai, China
%P 11-17
scp.pdf
%A Dean Jerding
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T Using Visualization for Architectural Localization and Extraction
%J Science of Computer Programming
%D 2000
%V 36
%P 267-284
sei.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T Position Paper Domain Analysis and Reverse Engineering
%J Software Engineering Techniques Workshop on Software Reengineering
%I Software Engineering Institute
%C Pittsburgh, Pennsysvania
%D May 3-5, 1994
serf.pdf
%A M. Moore
%A S. Rugaber
%T Issues in User Interface Migration
%J Proceedings of the Third Software Engineering Research Forum
%C Orlando Florida
%D November 1993
slicing.pdf
%A Margaret Ann Francel
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T The value of Slicing while Debugging
%J Science of Computer Programming
%V 40
%N 2-3
%D July, 2001
%P 151-169
softpsych.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%A Victoria Tisdale
%T Software Psychology Requirments for Software Maintenance Activities
%I Software Engineering Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology
software.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%A Stephen B. Ornburn
%A Richard J. LeBlanc, Jr.
%T Recognizing Design Decisions in Programs
%J IEEE Software
%V 7
%N 1
%P 46-54
%D January 1990
%O Also include sidebar1.pdf and sidebar2.pdf
sidebar1.pdf
%O Sidebar for software.pdf
sidebar2.pdf
%O Sidebar for software.pdf
sistine.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%A Jim White
%T Restoring a Legacy
%J IEEE Software
%V 15
%N 4
%D July-August 1998
%O To Appear
synchronized.pdf
%A Kit Kamper
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T A Reverse Engineering Methodology for Data Processing Applications
%R GIT-SERC-90/02
%I Software Engineering Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology
%D March 1990
%X Figures are missing
tajTR08.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%A Naren Chainani
%A Ogechi Nnadi
%A Kurt Stirewalt
%T A Conceptual Model for Folding
%R GT-CS-08-09
%I College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
%D October 22, 2008
taskboard.pdf
%A Chris Parnin
%A Carsten Goerg
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T TaskBoard: Tracking Pertinent Task Artifacts and Plans
%J International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC)
%C Vancouver, Canada
%D 2009
transit.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%A Srinivas Doddapaneni
%T The Transition of Application Programs From COBOL to a Fourth Generation Language
%J Conference on Software Maintenance - 93
%D September 27-30, 1993
%C Montreal, Canada
uif_domain.pdf
%A Melody Moore
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T Domain Analysis for Transformational Reuse
%J Proceedings of the Fourth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
%D October 6-8, 1997
%C Amsterdam, the Netherlands
%I IEEE Computer Society
uif_migration.pdf
%A Melody Moore
%A Spencer Rugaber
%A Phil Seaver
%T Knowledge-based User Interface Migration
%J Proceedings of the 1994 International Conference on Software Maintenance
uif_representation.pdf
%A Melody Moore
%T Representation Issues for Reengineering User Interfaces
%D February 19, 1996
%I Open Systems Laboratory and Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology
uif_proposal.pdf
%A Melody M. Moore
%T User Interface Reverse Engineering
%I College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology
%D October 18, 1994
uif_update.pdf
%A Melody M. Moore
%T User Interface Reverse Engineering
%I College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology
%D Febuary 19, 1996
uif_knowledge.pdf
%A Melody Moore
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T Using Knowledge Representation to Understand Interactive Systems
%J Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Program Comprehension
%D May 28-30, 1997
%C Dearborn, Michigan
%I IEEE Computer Society Press
usagecontext.pdf
%A Chris Parnin
%A Carsten Goerg
%T Building Usage Contexts During Program Comprehension
%J International Conference on Program Comprehension
%C Athens, Greece
%D 2006
vis++.pdf
%A D. Alberto Rama
%T Building a Simple Class Hierarchy Browser with GEN++
%D June 1994
vis.parallel.pdf
%A E. Kraemer
%A J. T. Stasko
%T Issues in Visualization for the Comprehension of Parallel Programs
%J Third Workshop on Program Comprehension
%C Washington, D.C.
%D November 14-15, 1994
%P 116-127
vis.parallel.nofigs.pdf
%O Smaller version of vis.parallel.pdf without figures
wcre96.pdf
%A Jean-Marc DeBaud
%T Lessons from a Domain-based Reengineering Effort
%J 3rd Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
%D November 8-10, 1996
%C Monterey, California
wcre97.pdf
%A Dean Jerding
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T Using Visualization for Architectural Localization and Extraction
%J Proceedings of the Fourth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
%D October 6-8, 1997
%C Amsterdam, the Netherlands
%I IEEE Computer Society
%P 56-65
proposal.pdf
%A Robert Waters
%T A Process for Obtaining Architectural Descriptions from Legacy Systems: the Architectural Synthesis Process (ASP)
%I College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology
%D September 20, 2000
white_paper.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T White Paper on Reverse Engineering
wpc.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%T Reverse Engineering by Simultaneous Program Analysis and Domain Synthesis
%J Workshop on Program Comprehension
%C Orlando, Floriday
%D November 9,1992
wse.pdf
%A Spencer Rugaber
%A N. Harel
%A S. Govindharaj
%A D. Jerding
%T Problems Modeling Web Sites and User Behavior
%J The 8th IEEE International Symposium on Web Site Evolution
%D September 23-24, 2006
%C Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
For a reprint of this paper send an email request to linda@cc.gatech.edu.
%A Charles Rich
%A Linda M. Wills
%T Recognizing a Program's Design: A Graph-Parsing Approach
%J IEEE Software
%V 7
%N 1
%P 82-89
%D January 1990
For a reprint of this paper send an email request to linda@cc.gatech.edu.
%A Linda M. Wills
%T Automated Program Recognition: A Feasibility Demonstration
%J Artificial Intelligence
%V 45
%N 1-2
%P 113-172
%D September 1990
For more information, please contact:
Spencer Rugaber spencer@cc.gatech.edu