Distributed Graphical User Interfaces to Class Diagram: Reverse Engineering Approach using Pattern Recognition

Abstract

The graphical user interfaces of software programs are used by researchers in the soft-ware engineeringfield to measure functionality, usability, durability, accessibility, and performance. This paper describes areverse engineering approach to transformthe cap-tured images of the distributed GUIs into classdiagram. The processed distributed GUIs come from different and separate client computers. From thedistributed GUIs, the inter-faces are captured as images, attributes and functions are extracted andprocessed through pattern recognitions mechanism to be stored into several temporary tablescorresponding to each client’s graphical user interface. These tables will be analyzed and processed intoone integrated normalized table eliminating any attribute redundancies. Further, the normalized the oneintegrated table is to create a class diagra