ITPEC FE Morning October 2018 Question 51
ITPEC FE Morning October 2018 — Question 51 of 80
Reverse Engineering — analyzing existing software to recover its specification and structure.
Reverse engineering = analyze existing code → extract specs/structure (no source docs needed)
Why not others:
- (a) Re-engineering — reconstructing entire software after analysis
- (c) Refactoring — changing internal structure without changing external behavior
- (d) Forward engineering — auto-generating code from design using tools
Key rule: Reverse engineering goes backward: from code → to specs. Forward engineering goes forward: from specs → to code.
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