Modernizing legacy software using a System Grokking technology

Reverse engineering is an essential part of the modernization process that enables the evolution of existing software assets. The extraction of state machines out of existing code is an important aspect of the reverse engineering process. However, none of the reverse engineering tools fully support an automatic extraction of state machines.

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