Recover Software Requirements from an Executable

Requirements recovery describes externally required behavior from executable evidence; it does not attempt to recreate the original source code.

Recover functional obligations

  1. Capture workflows, roles, inputs, validation and outputs.
  2. Record business calculations, state transitions and reports.
  3. Measure database effects and file transformations.
  4. Specify network/device messages and timing.
  5. Exercise boundary values and error/recovery behavior.

Make requirements traceable

Link each requirement to screenshots, captured inputs/outputs, database diffs, traffic or repeated experiments. Mark confidence as confirmed, strongly inferred or unresolved and turn examples into acceptance tests.

Use behavior analysis to gather evidence, black-box migration for implementation strategy, executable analysis for dependencies and the pillar.

Describe your legacy system or problem

Share what still works, what failed, and what must be preserved.

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