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Auflistung nach Autor:in "Muthig, Dirk"

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    A Decade of Reverse Engineering at Fraunhofer IESE – The Changing Role of Reverse Engineering in Applied Research
    (Software archeology and the handbook of software architecture, 2008) Knodel, Jens; Muthig, Dirk
    The Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) recognized reverse engineering as an essential competence and thus has been active in the field since 1996, which is right from its beginning. The role of reverse engineering, however, within the institute changed over time. Since Fraunhofer IESE is an applied research institute its competencies are tailored to the market to be and stay attractive to industry. This paper analyzes the evolution of the competence reverse engineering in retrospective and derives a picture of the role and importance of reverse engineering to practice in the last ten years where reverse engineering moved from a set of techniques applied in pure reengineering project to an enabling technology for other software engineering disciplines. Furthermore, we present our vision for the future role of reverse engineering at Fraunhofer IESE, as a supportive technology for the development of software, which gives constant and continuous feedback already at construction time.
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    Static architecture evaluation of open source reuse candidates
    (NODe 2006 – GSEM 2006, 2006) Knodel, Jens; Muthig, Dirk; Naab, Matthias
    Open source software systems provide a variety of field-tested components offering software development organizations the potential to reuse and adapt such components for their own purposes. The main challenge before achieving the reuse benefits is to acquire a thorough understanding of open source software systems (i.e., the reuse candidates) in order to reason about alternative solutions, to learn about the points where to adapt the system and eventually to decide whether or not to invest into reuse. Manually analyzing even small systems is a time-consuming, complex and costly task. In this paper we present a case study where we analyzed the Apache Tomcat web server supported by a software architecture visualization and evaluation tool and demonstrate how the tool facilitated our comprehension tasks to learn about the architectural means and concepts.