Recovering Use Case Diagrams from Object Oriented Code: An MDA-based Approach

Pereira, Claudia; Martinez, Liliana; Favre, Liliana María

doi:10.1109/itng.2011.130

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“…WARE tool uses static code as an input and is capable of reverse engineering only when having access to entire source code of web application. In general, when source code is available, reverse engineering UML diagrams seems to have more possibilities for implementation, as source code is a valuable source of information [2,6,9,16]. Unfortunately, the source code is not always available.…”

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“…There are several studies on reverse engineering specifically use case diagrams. Some of them are based on source code analysis [6,9,16], which is not applicable to our method. Others have one major disadvantage: they require effort for creating additional specifications which are used as an input for diagram generation.…”

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“…Only directly accessible HTML code of website is analyzed together with the recorded user activity. Many existing methods for reverse engineering UML diagrams require access to the source code of system under analysis [2,6,9,16]. Reverse engineering UML diagrams from websites without access to source code can be useful in various situations, e.g.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Method for Reverse Engineering UML Use Case Model for Websites

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Drungilas

Jurgelaitis

et al. 2018

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Problems with inadequately documented or undocumented websites could be alleviated by introducing reverse engineering of UML diagrams. In this paper, the method for reverse engineering UML use case model for websites is presented. It consists of two steps: recording user actions in the analyzed website, and then transforming the combination of recorded activity and publicly available HTML code information into UML use case model. This model consists of UML use case diagram and UML activity diagrams describing scenario of each use case. The proposed method is implemented as a Google Chrome plugin named WEB2UML. WEB2UML is able to generate UML use case and activity diagrams in XMI format, compatible with MagicDraw UML CASE tool. During experimental evaluation of the WEB2UML tool, two UML use case models were reverse engineered: one for moodle. if.ktu.lt website and another for researchgate.net website. The quality of generated models was evaluated using an anonymous questionnaire completed by 13 UML modelling experts. The results of expert evaluation are encouraging: in total, average expert evaluation score was 8,4 in a scale of ten.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Method for Reverse Engineering UML Use Case Model for Websites

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“…Missing or outdated documentation in legacy projects is always an issue during reengineering. Many techniques, however, have been presented for reverse engineering artifacts, such as domain models [12], class diagrams [28], sequence diagrams [16,18,23,25,33], and use cases [7] from legacy code. An architecture recovery methodology using feature modeling is described in [24].…”

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“…The new, modified, and deleted use cases are assigned to iterations in this step. First, an agile estimation technique such as the poker game [7] is applied to obtain an effort estimate for dealing with each of the use cases. An order to design, implement, delete, and test the use cases is derived, based on their dependencies and priorities.…”

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An Agile Methodology for Reengineering Object-Oriented Software

Sahoo

Kung

Gupta

2016

International Conferences on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

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Software maintenance is an important phase in the software development life cycle. More than 75% of maintenance efforts are enhancement. Currently, most enhancement projects are carried out in an ad hoc manner, depending on the knowledge and experience of the developers. Software reengineering aims to provide an engineering approach for software enhancements. In this paper, we present an agile reengineering methodology for object-oriented software. The methodology has a quick planning phase followed by a series of iterative reengineering phases. Each iteration consists of three legs: the reverse engineering leg, the reincarnation leg, and the validation leg. Academic and industry experiments show promising results.

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Using model-driven engineering to automate software language translation

Lano,

Siala

2024

Autom Softw Eng

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The porting or translation of software applications from one programming language to another is a common requirement of organisations that utilise software, and the increasing number and diversity of programming languages makes this capability as relevant today as in previous decades. Several approaches have been used to address this challenge, including machine learning and the manual definition of direct language-to-language translation rules, however the accuracy of these approaches remains unsatisfactory. In this paper we describe a new approach to program translation using model-driven engineering techniques: reverse-engineering source programs into specifications in the UML and OCL formalisms, and then forward-engineering the specifications to the required target language. This approach can provide assurance of semantic preservation, and additionally has the advantage of extracting precise specifications of software from code. We provide an evaluation based on a comprehensive dataset of examples, including industrial cases, and compare our results to those of other approaches and tools. Our specific contributions are: (1) Reverse-engineering source programs to detailed semantic models of software behaviour, to enable semantically-correct translations and reduce re-testing costs; (2) Program abstraction processes defined by precise and explicit rules, which can be edited and configured by users; (3) A set of reusable OCL library components appropriate for representing program semantics, and which can also be used for OCL specification of new applications; (4) A systematic procedure for building program abstractors based on language grammars and semantics.

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Recovering Use Case Diagrams from Object Oriented Code: An MDA-based Approach

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Method for Reverse Engineering UML Use Case Model for Websites

Method for Reverse Engineering UML Use Case Model for Websites

An Agile Methodology for Reengineering Object-Oriented Software

Using model-driven engineering to automate software language translation

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