25 Reverse Engineering
Acronym
| CAST | Certification Authorities Software Team |
| COTS | commercial off-the-shelf |
| EASA | European Aviation Safety Agency |
| FAA | Federal Aviation Administration |
| LAL | less abstract level |
| LLR | low-level requirement |
| MAL | more abstract level |
| PDS | previously developed software |
| RE | reverse engineering |
| SQA | software quality assurance |
This chapter defines reverse engineering, identifies some issues related to it, and provides high level recommendations for how to reverse engineer the life cycle data required to satisfy DO-178C objectives. This chapter is closely related to Chapter 24, since reverse engineering is recognized in DO-178C as an alternative method for generating life cycle data, particularly for previously developed ...
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