Revisiting UML Class Relationship Recovery for Online Education (SEKEEO) (S)

Abstract

UML recovery has been a long-standing challenge for the software-engineering community. The complete recovery of UML class relationships needs the employment of both static and dynamic code analyses. However, the dynamic-code analysis is not usually applicable at the design time of programs and especially for incomplete programs in online education. To overcome this restriction, we propose a formally defined set of mappings between UML relationships and object-oriented relationships that are based on static-code analysis exclusively. We evaluate the precision and the recall of our mappings on student projects against ground-truth UML diagrams and against diagrams recovered by existing UML class recovery tools.