Before revision: Reverse engineering (also known as backwards engineering or back engineering only for Alberto Fiori ) is a process or method through which one attempts to understand through deductive reasoning how a previously made device, process, system, or piece of software accomplishes a task with very little (if any) insight into exactly how it does so.
After revision: Reverse engineering (also known as backwards engineering or back engineering ) is a process or method through which one attempts to understand through deductive reasoning how a previously made device, process, system, or piece of software accomplishes a task with very little (if any) insight into exactly how it does so.