In 1990, ElliotChikofsky and JamesCross published Reverse Engineering and Design Recovery: A Taxonomy, IEEE Software 7(1):13-17, 1990. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/52.43044 (was here).

Terms defined include

• ForwardEngineering
• ReverseEngineering
• ReEngineering
• ReStructuring
• ReDocumentation
• DesignRecovery

Other terms

• RoundTripEngineering
• SoftwareMaintenance.

The ReengineeringBibliography is available via (an updated version) of this taxonomy. See http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ifi/ps/reengineering/taxonomy.html

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This Wiki provides an opportunity to transform a static, published taxonomy into a living taxonomy, where new terms can be added when appropriate, and existing definitions can be discussed and modified by the entire reengineering community -- ArieVanDeursen.

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At http://tcse.org/revengr/taxonomy.html some of the key notions are repeated.

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Further reengineering taxonomies are available at

• http://www.cc.gatech.edu/reverse/glossary.html
• http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/RENG/defin.html

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The CRC Press Computer Science Dictionary on software engineering (quite large!) includes the definitions from this taxonomy: see http://hpcn.dsi.unifi.it/~dictionary/

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