Reverse engineering techniques: From web applications to rich Internet applications

Abstract

Web systems evolved in the last years starting from static websites to Web applications, up to Ajax-based Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Reverse Engineering techniques followed the same evolution, too. The authors and many other WSE contributors proposed a lot of innovative and effective ideas providing important advances in the reverse engineering field. In this paper, we will show the historical evolution of reverse engineering approaches for Web Systems with particular attention to the ones presented in the WSE events.