What is reverse engineering

What is meant by the reverse engineering?

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Reverse engineering is said to be the process which is performed to find unknown, difficult, and hidden information about the software system. It is becoming an essential, as numerous software products lack proper documentation, and are extremely unstructured, or their structure has been degraded through the series of the maintenance efforts. Maintenance activities may not be performed without having the complete understanding of the software system.

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