Process which leads to disassembling and analysis of competitors, operating activities to become acquainted with competitors' technologies is called

Process which leads to disassembling and analysis of competitors, operating activities to become acquainted with competitors' technologies is called reverse engineering. Reverse engineering, also called back engineering, is the process by which a man-made object is deconstructed to reveal its designs, architecture, or to extract knowledge from the object; similar to scientific research, the only difference being that scientific research is about a natural phenomenon.