COSMOPEN: dynamic reverse engineering on a budget. How cheap observation techniques can be used to reconstruct complex multi-level behaviour

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reverse engineering, tracing, stack-traces , middleware , model , call-tree , graph transformation , CORBA , multi-threading

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COSMOPEN: dynamic reverse engineering on a budget. How cheap observation techniques can be used to reconstruct complex multi-level behaviour. / Taiani, Francois; Killijian, Marc-Olivier; Fabre, Jean-Charles.
In: Software: Practice and Experience, Vol. 39, No. 18, 25.12.2009, p. 1467-1514.

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