Frontiers of reverse engineering: A conceptual model

Software reverse engineering is a crucial task to reconstruct high-level views of a software system - with the purpose of understanding and/or maintaining it - when the only reliable source of information is the source code, or even the system binaries. This paper discusses key reverse engineering concepts through a UML conceptual model. Specifically, the model is composed of a set of UML class diagrams describing relationships existing among reverse engineering processes, tools, artifacts, and stakeholders.