Analysis of the Ethical Issues in Implementing Reverse Engineering Feature Models

This paper discusses the ethical and technical issues related to the use of reverse engineering technology for extracting software functionalities. It explores the implications of the technology on software development and highlights the ethical concerns related to hacking and extracting original codes and programming features of the software.

Analysis of the Ethical Issues in Implementing Reverse
Engineering Feature Models
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ABSTRACT
The following paper has been made on the topic of the Reverse
Engineering technology that had become prominent for the
extraction of the information from the software design and it
would also allow the users for getting in the system. The issues
have formed the major hindrance in the operations of the
organization.
1. INTRODUCTION
The exploitation of the software variants and development of the
software product line has become the latest trend line for the
software engineering experts (Bruneliere et al., 2014). The
extraction of the crucial and optional features of the software is
done by the help of reverse engineering process. The feature
model of the technology exploits the technology and features of
the effective and improved operations.
The following paper would provide an overview of the issues
raised due to the use of the Reverse Engineering Technology for
exploiting software functionalities. The technical implication of
the software is implied for ensuring that the operations of the
organization.
2. IDENTIFICATION AND
DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM
The use of the Reverse Engineering Technology would provide
the ease of extracting the crucial and optional functions of the
software (Al-Msie’deen et al., 2014). The development of the
operations has been helpful for forming the improved functional
analysis. The implication of the operations would be helpful for
enduring the system implication. The use of Reverse Engineering
Feature Model would allow the experts for developing the
improved operations and formation of the specific analysis
(Chowdhury, Chetty & Vinh, 2013). The ethical issue in this
technology is that the real developer would not know if the
criminals would hack and extract the original codes and
programming features of the software.
3. TECHNCIAL ISSUES OF
TECHNOLOGY
The implication of the Reverse Engineering lies in the fact that the
user implies the FM extraction by using AOC-poset (Moradi et
al., 2013). The extraction of the mandatory and root feature for the
building of the base node. The extraction of the atomic set of the
features is used for the developing the features of the outdoor
development in the operations. The analysis of the exclusive
development model would carry on the formation of the
integration model. The simplified analysis of the operations would
allow the development of the functions (Majstorovic et al., 2013).
The integration of the operations would involve the exclusion of
the operations.
4. CORE EVALUATION METRICS
The core evaluation of the technology is dependent on the recall,
F-measure, and precision (Biryukov & Perrin, 2015). The
implementation is highly dependent on the formation of the
FAMA tools and SPLOT homepage. The generation of the file
containing the minded FM would be helpful for the product
configuration and the feature selection of the mined FM. The
product configuration is retrieved for the acknowledgment of the
specific operations (Acher et al., 2013). The relevancy of the
product configuration is in correspondence to the development of
the high value modification.
5. CONCLUSION
It can be concluded from the paper that the implication of the
improved processes of Reverse Engineering would result in
forming the ethical issue of hacking the about the software from
the use of the technology. The inbuilt design and functions of the
operations would be formed for forming the analytical
development of the operations. The development of the profound
functions would help in clearing the operations and aligning the
improvement of the specific operations. The study would also
provide the improvement of the operations for carrying out the
integrated function development for the software development.
6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Our thanks to ACM SIGCHI for allowing us to modify templates
they had developed.

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