Model-driven reverse engineering of legacy graphical user interfaces

Ramón, Óscar Sánchez; Cuadrado, Jesús Sánchez; Molina, José Jaime Capel

doi:10.1145/1858996.1859023

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“…Other particular examples of applications are automated design patterns detection using ontologies [36] or graphical interfaces separation and later reusability [37], which are also potentially adaptable in the context of MoDisco if some models can be exchanged between the solutions.…”

Section: Specific Reverse Engineering Solutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Model Driven Reverse Engineering Framework for Extracting Business Rules Out of a Java Application

Cosentino

Cabot

Albert

et al. 2012

Rules on the Web: Research and Applications

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Context: Most companies, independently of their size and activity type, are facing the problem of managing, maintaining and/or replacing (part of) their existing software systems. These legacy systems are often large applications playing a critical role in the company's information system and with a non-negligible impact on its daily operations. Improving their comprehension (e.g., architecture, features, enforced rules, handled data) is a key point when dealing with their evolution/modernization.Objective: The process of obtaining useful higher-level representations of (legacy) systems is called reverse engineering (RE), and remains a complex goal to achieve. Socalled Model Driven Reverse Engineering (MDRE) has been proposed to enhance more traditional RE processes. However, generic and extensible MDRE solutions potentially addressing several kinds of scenarios relying on different legacy technologies are still missing or incomplete. This paper proposes to make a step in this direction.Method: MDRE is the application of Model Driven Engineering (MDE) principles and techniques to RE in order to generate relevant model-based views on legacy systems, thus facilitating their understanding and manipulation. In this context, MDRE is practically used in order to 1) discover initial models from the legacy artifacts composing a given system and 2) understand (process) these models to generate relevant views (i.e., derived models) on this system. Results: Capitalizing on the different MDRE practices and our previous experience (e.g., in real modernization projects), this paper introduces and details the MoDisco open source MDRE framework. It also presents the underlying MDRE global methodology and architecture accompanying this proposed tooling.Conclusion: MoDisco is intended to make easier the design and building of modelbased solutions dedicated to legacy systems RE. As an empirical evidence of its relevance and usability, we report on its successful application in real industrial projects and on the concrete experience we gained from that.

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Section: Specific Reverse Engineering Solutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Model Driven Reverse Engineering Framework for Extracting Business Rules Out of a Java Application

Cosentino

Cabot

Albert

et al. 2012

Rules on the Web: Research and Applications

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“…A number of works were proposed to make the traditional web adaptive to the devices' sizes. The key problem includes segmenting the existing UI into some semantic parts [14], resize and rearrange the widgets [15], and refactoring the existing source code [16]. A good summary of the adaptive model-driven UI development is provided by [17].…”

Section: B Gui Redesignmentioning

confidence: 99%

Automaticly Generating Web Page From A Mockup

Huang¹,

Long²,

Chen³

2016

International Conferences on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

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Abstract-UI is an important part of software product. Considering the complexity of web UI, generating the web page from a mockup proposes requirements for rich experience of developer. Extracting visible elements and their relationship, selecting proper tags, generating source code are time-consuming and error-prone task. In this paper, we propose a method to automate the transforming of the mockup to the web page. Our approach starts from the mockup designed by the art designers, and extracts the elements based on the color features of the edges. Then a bottom-up tag generating method based on the Random Forest is proposed to select the tags for elements. Finally the web page is generated by the definition of the elements. The generating tags can achieve an average accuracy of more than 84%, which can meet the basic requirements of the developers.

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“…Researchers have also developed similar ideas in other areas, including web compatibility testing [74], automated debugging [75] and validation of legacy software [76].…”

Section: Reverse Engineering For Non-gui Testingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The first decade of GUI ripping: Extensions, applications, and broader impacts

Memon

Banerjee

Nguyen

et al. 2013

2013 20th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE)

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This paper provides a retrospective examination of GUI Ripping-reverse engineering a workflow model of the graphical user interface of a software application-born a decade ago out of recognition of the severe need for improving the then largely manual state-of-the-practice of functional GUI testing. In these last 10 years, GUI ripping has turned out to be an enabler for much research, both within our group at Maryland and other groups. Researchers have found new and unique applications of GUI ripping, ranging from measuring human performance to re-engineering legacy user interfaces. GUI ripping has also enabled large-scale experimentation involving millions of test cases, thereby helping to understand the nature of GUI faults and characteristics of test cases to detect them. It has resulted in large multi-institutional Government-sponsored research projects on test automation and benchmarking. GUI ripping tools have been ported to many platforms, including Java AWT and Swing, iOS, Android, UNO, Microsoft Windows, and web. In essence, the technology has transformed the way researchers and practitioners think about the nature of GUI testing, no longer considered a manual activity; rather, thanks largely to GUI Ripping, automation has become the primary focus of current GUI testing techniques.

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Model-driven reverse engineering of legacy graphical user interfaces

Cited by 18 publications

References 6 publications

A Model Driven Reverse Engineering Framework for Extracting Business Rules Out of a Java Application

A Model Driven Reverse Engineering Framework for Extracting Business Rules Out of a Java Application

Automaticly Generating Web Page From A Mockup

The first decade of GUI ripping: Extensions, applications, and broader impacts

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