Reverse engineering Distributed Algorithms

Kaisa Sere, Marina Walden

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Sammanfattning

Recently, formal approaches to reverse engineering have received considerable
attention as a means of creating correct high level specifications. We show how a formal approach to reverse engineering can be applied when constructing distributed systems, eg. if we want to reuse an existing algorithm, but in a different environment, or develop a new distributed algorithm that is somehow similar to an existing one. We introduce a formal approach to reverse engineering that is dedicated to distributed systems. Our approach is based on a technique we call coarsement. The idea is that an implementation is stepwise turned into a high level specification through a number of intermediate coarsement steps that abstract away the details while preserving the behaviour of the implementation.
OriginalspråkEngelska
Sidor (från-till)117-144
TidskriftJournal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice
Volym8
Nummer2
StatusPublicerad - 1996
MoE-publikationstypA1 Tidskriftsartikel-refererad

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