Towards a Reverse Engineering Dataflow Analysis Framework for Java and C++

Abstract-Due to the software aging phenomenon, understanding a program is increasingly difficult. Many high-level analysis methods have been developed to support program comprehension, some of them based on dataflow analysis. Conventional dataflow analysis infrastructures could be used as a basis to implement these reverse engineering methods. However, none of them meet specific reverse engineering requirements. In this tool demo we introduce MEMBRAIN, a dataflow analysis infrastructure for reverse engineering. A brief insight over this infrastructure is presented along with some essential implementation details. The demo also includes a practical usage example and a performance comparison in order to prove the tool usability