reverse engineering

Process by which a man-made object is deconstructed to reveal its designs, architecture, code or to extract knowledge from the object

Entityproblem-solving approach engineering conceptQ269608

Instance of: problem-solving approach
, engineering concept
Subclass of: problem solving
, technical process
, intentional human activity

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Reverse engineering is a process or method through which one attempts to understand through deductive reasoning how a previously made device, process, system, or piece of software accomplishes a task with very little insight into exactly how it does so. Depending on the system under consideration and the technologies employed, the knowledge gained during reverse engineering can help with repurposing obsolete objects, doing security analysis, or learning how something works.

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Practiced by: reverse engineer
Cause: right to repair
Class of object(s) of occurrence: system
Has use: knowledge extraction

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