Blackbox reverse engineering: Rebuilding without source code — XConf India 2025 @thoughtworks
Blackbox reverse engineering: Rebuilding without source code — XConf India 2025 @thoughtworks
Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This talk shows how a decades-old retail system was rebuilt without source code or a live instance. Using only static UI files, database schema, recordings, and DLLs, the team used decompiled assembly, schema mapping, and AI-powered flow extraction to recover core functionality in one week. Learn how Gen AI enabled black-box reverse engineering and rapid modernization.

Speaker info:
Thiyagu Palanisamy - Global Head of Technology - Retail
Chandirasekar Thiagarajan - Developer


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