Reverse Engineering

The answer to the question, 'What is reverse engineering?' is that it is a process in which a designer or developer dismantles a product to learn about its design. Traditionally, companies used to reverse engineer physical objects, but today companies can use this process on codes of various applications. Using backward engineering, companies can deconstruct software, aircraft, machines and architectural structures to extract their design information. The reverse engineering process allows you to identify how a company designed a particular part so that you can recreate it.

Usually, companies widely use the backward engineering process to create a replacement part of an obsolete product. This means that engineers mimic a design without the original blueprint. The knowledge gained during the backward engineering process can help a company teach their employees how things work and gain a competitive advantage over others.