Reverse engineering, design assessment support

[howell@community-chest.mitre.ORG]

Several CASE vendors now advertise support for "reverse engineering" of
source code to some design representation; I'm interested in any
experiences with any of these capabilities.  I'd appreciate any
information about vendors that are supporting reverse engineering and
any "consumer reports" on them.

I've also seen a description of a tool called INSPECTOR, from a company
named Language Technology.  It is a "quality assurance tool based
on scientific measurement of COBOL quality and maintainability" (from a
CASE seminar announcement).  Any information on this tool and others
like it (particularly for Ada) would be appreciated.

Thanks,
 
     Chuck Howell
     The MITRE Corporation, Mail Stop Z645
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