Application of UML associations and their adornments in design recovery

Author

Kollmann, Ralf ; Gogolla, Martin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Bremen Univ., Germany

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

81

Lastpage

90

Abstract

Many CASE tools support reverse engineering and UML. However, it can be observed that, usually, only a subset of the UML notation is supported, namely those parts with a more or less direct code representation. Although a lot of research has been done in this field, the more advanced features of UML notations are not commonly supported in reverse engineering. In this paper, we show approaches to discover patterns in program code that can be represented by means of the advanced notational features of UML class diagrams. We obtain the necessary information by reverse-engineering Java programs with different methods. These have been implemented in a prototype implementation

Keywords

Java; computer aided software engineering; diagrams; reverse engineering; software prototyping; specification languages; CASE tools; Java programs; UML associations; UML class diagrams; UML notations; adornment; composition; direct code representation; prototype implementation; reverse engineering; system design recovery; Application software; Computer aided software engineering; Computer science; Handicapped aids; Java; Marine vehicles; Prototypes; Reverse engineering; Software prototyping; Unified modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reverse Engineering, 2001. Proceedings. Eighth Working Conference on

Conference_Location

Stuttgart

ISSN

1095-1350

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1303-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCRE.2001.957812

Filename

957812