Model Driven Architecture for Reverse Engineering Technologies

Favre, Liliana María

doi:10.4018/978-1-61520-649-0

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“…Based on this, various proposals such as [24] combine these standards in a methodological framework. MDRE is also useful for software analysis purposes (e.g., as proposed by the Moose platform [25]).…”

Section: Model Driven Reverse Engineering (Mdre)mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Model Driven Reverse Engineering Framework for Extracting Business Rules Out of a Java Application

Cosentino

Cabot

Albert

et al. 2012

Rules on the Web: Research and Applications

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Context: Most companies, independently of their size and activity type, are facing the problem of managing, maintaining and/or replacing (part of) their existing software systems. These legacy systems are often large applications playing a critical role in the company's information system and with a non-negligible impact on its daily operations. Improving their comprehension (e.g., architecture, features, enforced rules, handled data) is a key point when dealing with their evolution/modernization.Objective: The process of obtaining useful higher-level representations of (legacy) systems is called reverse engineering (RE), and remains a complex goal to achieve. Socalled Model Driven Reverse Engineering (MDRE) has been proposed to enhance more traditional RE processes. However, generic and extensible MDRE solutions potentially addressing several kinds of scenarios relying on different legacy technologies are still missing or incomplete. This paper proposes to make a step in this direction.Method: MDRE is the application of Model Driven Engineering (MDE) principles and techniques to RE in order to generate relevant model-based views on legacy systems, thus facilitating their understanding and manipulation. In this context, MDRE is practically used in order to 1) discover initial models from the legacy artifacts composing a given system and 2) understand (process) these models to generate relevant views (i.e., derived models) on this system. Results: Capitalizing on the different MDRE practices and our previous experience (e.g., in real modernization projects), this paper introduces and details the MoDisco open source MDRE framework. It also presents the underlying MDRE global methodology and architecture accompanying this proposed tooling.Conclusion: MoDisco is intended to make easier the design and building of modelbased solutions dedicated to legacy systems RE. As an empirical evidence of its relevance and usability, we report on its successful application in real industrial projects and on the concrete experience we gained from that.

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Section: Model Driven Reverse Engineering (Mdre)mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Model Driven Reverse Engineering Framework for Extracting Business Rules Out of a Java Application

Cosentino

Cabot

Albert

et al. 2012

Rules on the Web: Research and Applications

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“…The article (Favre, 2005) describes a forward engineering process from UML static models to object-oriented code. More information related to the NEREUS approach may be found at (Favre, 2010) and (Favre, 2009). However, we would like remark that here NEREUS is used as an intermediate formal notation to communicate the essential of an MDA reverse engineering approach.…”

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“…A detailed description of the system may be found at (Favre, 2010 As an example, we show the formalization in NEREUS of a simplified QVT Core metamodel ( Figure 2). The Core language is as powerful as the Relation language and may be used as a reference for the semantics of relations, which are mapped to Core.…”

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MDA-Based Reverse Engineering

Favre¹

2012

Reverse Engineering - Recent Advances and Applications

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“…Models evolutions mainly follow the system life cycle but they can be driven by refactoring or reverse engineering activities. MDA transformations support model-driven evolution [15], [16]. The kinds of relations between models of different generations are traceability, change or version management, but one can find more specific links related to refactoring operations.…”

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An Improved Model Facet Method to Support EA Alignment

Pepin¹,

André²,

Attiogbé³

et al. 2016

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Abstract. Information System evolution requires a well-structured Enterprise Architecture and its rigorous management. The alignment of the elements in the architecture according to various abstraction layers may contribute to the management but appropriate tools are needed. We propose improvements to the Facet technique and we develop accompanying tools to master the difficulties of the alignment of the models used to structure an Enterprise Architecture. This technique has been experimented on many real life cases to demonstrate the effectiveness of our EA alignment method. The tools are already integrated in the Eclipse EMF Facet project.

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Model Driven Architecture for Reverse Engineering Technologies

Cited by 28 publications

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A Model Driven Reverse Engineering Framework for Extracting Business Rules Out of a Java Application

A Model Driven Reverse Engineering Framework for Extracting Business Rules Out of a Java Application

MDA-Based Reverse Engineering

An Improved Model Facet Method to Support EA Alignment

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