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SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGIES DEFINITION (continued):
program language statements. Software reverse engineering is done to retrieve the source code of a program because thesource code was lost, to study how the program performs certain operations, toimprove the performance of a program, to fix a bug (correct an error inthe program when the source code is not available), to identify malicious contentin a program such as a virus or to adapt a program written for use with onemicroprocessor for use with another. Reverse engineering for the purpose of copying or duplicating programs may constitute a copyright violation. In some cases, the licensed
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