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

Taiani, Francois and Killijian, Marc-Olivier and Fabre, Jean-Charles (2015) COSMOPEN: Dynamic reverse-engineering on a budget How cheap observation techniques can be used to reconstruct complex multi-level behaviour. Working Paper. Lancaster University. (Submitted)

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Abstract

In this article we present COSMOPEN, a reverse engineering tool optimised for the behavioural analysis of complex layered software. COSMOPEN combines cheap and non-intrusive observation techniques with a versatile graph manipulation engine. By programming different graph manipulation scripts, the “focal length” of our tool can be adapted to the different abstraction levels found in complex software. We illustrate how our tool can be used to extract high-level behavioural models from a complex multithreaded platform (GNU/Linux, CORBA middleware).

Item Type:	Monograph (Working Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	reverse engineering, middleware, model cs_eprint_id:1438 cs_uid:376
Subjects:	?? REVERSE ENGINEERINGMIDDLEWAREMODEL CS_EPRINT_ID1438 CS_UID376 ??
Departments:	Faculty of Science and Technology > School of Computing & Communications
ID Code:	12945
Deposited By:	ep_importer_comp
Deposited On:	16 Jul 2008 14:44
Refereed?:	No
Published?:	Submitted
Last Modified:	17 Feb 2012 12:12
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URI:	http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/12945

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