JBOORET: an automated tool to recover OO design and source models

Author

Hong, Mingyi ; Xie, Tao ; Yang, Fuqing

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Peking Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

71

Lastpage

76

Abstract

This paper introduces a reverse engineering tool, JBOORET (Jade Bird Object-Oriented Reverse Engineering Tool). This tool is developed by adopting a parser-based approach to assist the activity of extracting the higher-level design and source models from system artifacts. A conceptual model is formulated as the knowledge representation. Multi-perspective design and source models are recovered by JBOORET based on the comprehensive program information extracted from source code. Its flexible user interface can assist users to browse the detailed information of design and source models by using the selection and compaction mechanism. This paper discusses the design principles and decisions of JBOORET and describes its implementation

Keywords

knowledge representation; object-oriented methods; reverse engineering; user interfaces; JBOORET; Jade Bird Object-Oriented Reverse Engineering Tool; OO design recovery; OO source model recovery; automated tool; flexible user interface; knowledge representation; multiperspective design; parser; Application software; Birds; Computer industry; Computer science; Data mining; Object oriented modeling; Reverse engineering; Software maintenance; Software systems; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Software and Applications Conference, 2001. COMPSAC 2001. 25th Annual International

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

0730-3157

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1372-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPSAC.2001.960600

Filename

960600