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The GUISurfer tool: towards a language independent approach to reverse engineering GUI code

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José Creissac CamposAuthors Info & Claims

EICS '10: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems

Pages 181 - 186

https://doi.org/10.1145/1822018.1822045

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Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are critical components of today's software. Developers are dedicating a larger portion of code to implementing them. Given their increased importance, correctness of GUIs code is becoming essential. This paper describes the latest results in the development of GUISurfer, a tool to reverse engineer the GUI layer of interactive computing systems. The ultimate goal of the tool is to enable analysis of interactive system from source code.

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The GUISurfer tool: towards a language independent approach to reverse engineering GUI code
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Graphical user interfaces
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software post-development issues
      1. Software reverse engineering

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DOI:10.1145/1822018

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