Writing test programs and observing behavior is a form of reverse engineering. Period. Fortunately reverse engineering is perfectly legal, legally protected, and necessary for competition.
well, we can agree on somewhat disagreeing on what reverse engineering is
indeed though, if your aim is to keep close compatibility with .NET runtime, even if that contradicts its public specs (that is copy MS bugs too), you'd need to do some reverse engineering
however, regarding the legality of reverse engineering, keep in mind most software licenses don't allow it, so you can't even install such software if you plan on reverse engineering it, else you break its owners rights (cause they license it to you [even for free] under certain end-user-license, not without any restrictions on its use)
when some s/w becomes ubiquitous though (aka Windows), it starts being treated as common infrustructure and there are other laws coming in play, anti-monopoly ones etc., thus you get the right to ask for more published info on how that s/w behaves
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