Review on Reverse Engineering Techniques of Software Engineering

Choudhary, Upasana; Yadav, Maya

doi:10.5120/21133-4061

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“…There are so many tools are available in the industry for reverse engineering of legacy codes like Rational Rose, jGRASP, Eclipse and NetBins that will help the developer with this undertaking. To acquire deep knowledge of any subject a deep study of related topic is very important hence present paper is the sequence of wide literature review on reverse engineering published in IJCA as Review on Reverse Engineering Techniques of Software Engineering [8]. We have thoroughly discussed UML diagrams and related study.…”

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Review on Reverse Engineering of Legacy Code and Extraction of Class Diagrams

Choudhary¹,

Yadav²

2015

IJCA

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We are living in the era of software and Information technology. Where Reverse engineering has a big role in the up-gradation and maintenance of old software. Precisely if it comes to the reverse engineering of legacy code; so many tools and software are available in the market but still market requirement for reverse engineering of existing codes is unfulfilled. Present paper focus on the various researches published in consecutive years on the same topic. In this study we have covered legacy code and their reverse engineering feasibility as per the cost and time perspective, generation of class diagrams, various problems faced by the different researchers and possible solutions suggested. Conclusion of the study is that we need to do some more experiments to show the class diagram and their relationship and extracting method level dependency while performing reverse engineering of a legacy code by using different language tools and techniques.

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Review on Reverse Engineering of Legacy Code and Extraction of Class Diagrams

Choudhary¹,

Yadav²

2015

IJCA

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“…Another proposed application is the creation of Natural Language specifications from the existing UML class diagrams. [25] The research is still going on for both of the projects.…”

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“…Reverse engineering can be used to directly convert the data from the XML file, which is at a higher level of abstraction, to UML. [25] This automation of transforming XML data to UML is highly beneficial to the developer-it can significantly decrease the time and efforts of coding. Another proposed application is the creation of Natural Language specifications from the existing UML class diagrams.…”

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A Study on Software Reverse Engineering-An Overview of its Applications

Jha¹,

Rachana²,

Paramasivam³

2017

IJSEIA

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“…One way of alleviating the modelling cost is by reverse-engineering from the code of the WA [185]. For UML, it is possible considering the abundance of support tools [186]. But concerning IFML, we are unable to find similar tools.…”

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Using models to support the search-based testing of web applications

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A web application model offers a high-level description of a web application's behaviour. Using the web application's model to derive test cases serves as a good starting point in testing, since the model is created based on the web application's specification. To improve the capabilities of the derived test cases in revealing faults in the web application's behaviour, these test cases can be improved using search-based testing. In this thesis, we propose a search-based testing approach that explores a large search space of possible combinations of a web application's behaviour. The approach evolves an initial set of model-based test cases to produce more test cases that are more effective in finding failures in the web application's behaviour. Firstly, we present a pseudo-Genetic Algorithm that evolves a set of model-based test cases by mutating or recombining their model-based genes to obtain a set of model-based offspring test cases. The algorithm transforms the offspring test cases into executable test cases. We incorporate the pseudo-Genetic Algorithm in a search-based testing tool called MutateIFML. We describe the model-based test representation which uses the Interaction Flow Modelling Language to model the test cases and the system under test. We define the mutation score of the population as the fitness function for MutateIFML. Secondly, we validate MutateIFML's capability and applicability using two web applications: OpenBiblio and RosarioSIS. We discuss our results and the achievements of MutateIFML in producing effective test cases that are measured by the capability of the population in killing faults that are seeded into these web applications. The validation of the approach reveals that enhancing the single fitness function with a coverage indicator can help in guiding the selection phase of the search-based testing approach. We discover MutateIFML's limitation in scaling up to larger more complicated web applications due to the initial manual task of fault-seeding, the absence of a suitable automated support tool for the testing framework and the complexities of MutateIFML. We then extend the single fitness function used in MutateIFML to include branch coverage. We validate the improved multi-objective fitness function with a small case study that focuses on a module of a web application to examine the viability of the multi-objective fitness function in killing additional mutant systems under test. Although the multiobjective fitness function is able to kill additional mutants, we realise that it can cause MutateIFML's testing cost to increase substantially. Finally, we suggest possible directions for future work. Financial support Scholarship support from the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia (MoHE) and Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) in Malaysia is gratefully acknowledged. Temporary scholarship support and financial assistance from the

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Review on Reverse Engineering Techniques of Software Engineering

Cited by 5 publications

References 6 publications

Review on Reverse Engineering of Legacy Code and Extraction of Class Diagrams

Review on Reverse Engineering of Legacy Code and Extraction of Class Diagrams

A Study on Software Reverse Engineering-An Overview of its Applications

Using models to support the search-based testing of web applications

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