MDA-Based Reverse Engineering of Object Oriented Code

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

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-01862-6_21

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“…Favre et al [16] defined a process for reverse engineering of source code according to Model Driven Architecture (MDA) standards. Apart from model extraction, focus of this study is on a formal proof of models with different tools for testing and analyzing these models at unlike abstraction levels to get uniformity in reverse engineering process.…”

Section: A Model Driven Reverse Engineering Approachesmentioning

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A Model Driven Reverse Engineering Framework for Generating High Level UML Models From Java Source Code

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Legacy systems are large applications which are significant in performing daily organizational operations and cannot be upgraded easily especially in the absence of architectural and design documentation. Software modernization is an emerging field of software engineering, which transforms the legacy systems into new one according to the specified requirements of stakeholders. It mainly deals with improving the architecture, features, rules and data sources of existing system. It always remained a challenging task to achieve high-level representation of legacy systems. In order to achieve this high-level representation, Reverse Engineering (RE) plays an integral role. The issues of traditional RE are overcome with the help of Model Driven Reverse Engineering (MDRE) such as it generates model-based view of the legacy systems, which is comprehensible and easy to understand for practitioners. MDRE is an active research area but it provides limited tool support to extract and model both structural and behavioral aspects of legacy systems. In this paper, a novel MDRE framework named as ''Source to Model Framework (Src2MoF)''is proposed to generate Unified Modeling Language (UML) structural (class) and behavioral (activity) diagrams from the Java source code. Src2MoF is based on the principles of Model Driven Engineering (MDE), which use models as first-class citizens alleviating the complexity of software systems. The contributions of this paper are as follows; first, an Intermediate Model Discoverer (IMD) is developed using source code parser to get the intermediate representation of the system from the existing Java code. Second, an open source transformation engine named ''UML model generator'' is implemented using Java, which takes these intermediate models as input, and produce high-level UML models of the subject legacy system. Finally, the two benchmark case studies are presented to depict the relevance and usability of Src2MoF. INDEX TERMS Model driven reverse engineering, reverse engineering, UML models, legacy systems, java code.

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Section: A Model Driven Reverse Engineering Approachesmentioning

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A Model Driven Reverse Engineering Framework for Generating High Level UML Models From Java Source Code

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“…In this chapter we exemplify the bases of our approach with Class Diagram reverse engineering. However, our results include algorithms for extracting different UML diagrams such as interaction diagram, state diagram, use case diagram and activity diagram [23,24,25,26].…”

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Benefits of reverse engineering technologies in software development makerspace

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Abstract. In the recent decades, the amount of data produced by scientific, engineering, and life science applications has increased with several orders of magnitude. In parallel with this development, the applications themselves have become increasingly complex in terms of functionality, structure, and behavior. In the same time, development and production cycles of such applications exhibit a tendency of becoming increasingly shorter, due to factors such as market pressure and rapid evolution of supporting and enabling technologies. As a consequence, an increasing fraction of the cost of creating new applications and manufacturing processes shifts from the creation of new artifacts to the adaption of existing ones. A key component of this activity is the understanding of the design, operation, and behavior of existing manufactured artifacts, such as software code bases, hardware systems, and mechanical assemblies. For instance, in the software industry, it is estimated that maintenance costs exceed 80% of the total costs of a software product's lifecycle, and software understanding accounts for as much as half of these maintenance costs. To facilitate the software development process, it would be ideal to have tools that automatically generate or help to generate UML (Unified Modeling Language) models from source code. Reverse engineering the software architecture from source code provides a valuable service to software practitioners. Case tools implementing MDA and reverse-engineering constitute an important opportunity of software development engineers. So MDA and reverse engineering is an important key witch make makerspace more productive and more efficient.

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Section: Summing Up the Parts: A Framework For Reverse Engineeringmentioning

confidence: 99%