Reverse engineering as a bridge to CASE

This is an applied research report on the exploitation of reverse engineering technology acquired through the ESPRIT DOCKET Project. It describes three efforts to implement this technology in business applications at the Bremer Warehouse Company, the Technical University of Manchester and the Union Bank of Switzerland. In all three instances, reverse engineering was used to extract knowledge from existing source code and database structures, in order to build a bridge from the current operating software to a planned CASE environment. In all three instances, automated tools developed within the scope of the DOCKET Project were used. The report shows that much remains to be done to really fulfil the requirements of industry.