A New Reverse Engineering Approach to Convert Form Fill Format Document into UML Class Diagram

Abstract

This paper propose a new reverse engineering approach to convert a form fill format document into a set of related tables that can be used to generate the entity relationship diagram. A relationship between the set of tables is generated. In addition, the entity relationship diagram will be converted into a UML class diagram. However, this approach will be very helpful for researchers and practitioners in Software Engineering field, since most of the reverse engineering approaches are based on source code. This approach is tested by using several word form fill format documents and the results show a high accuracy rates comparing with the forward engineering.

XRTSDIC: model transformation from PIM to PSM

“…Alakwaa and Salah [11] focused on the model transformation from ontology to another model known as content analysis model. Muhairat and Qudar [12] explored reverse engineering approach for converting a document containing forms into UML class diagrams and their results claimed high accuracy in the conversion process. Ovchinnikova and Asnina [13] explored different software tools available for obtaining UML sequence diagrams ad class diagrams from source code.…”