Towards the reverse engineering of UML sequence diagrams

Briand, Lionel C.; Labiche, Yvan; Miao, Yu

doi:10.1109/wcre.2003.1287237

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“…An interesting research question is whether better tool support for modeling might help those who were unsuccessful become successful by assisting in the strong articulation of candidate error traces and/or in feasibility analysis. An automated tool that builds sequence diagrams [5,23,27] could be useful in an educational setting to support trace modeling. Such an automated tool could render a scenario as a sequence diagram, which should be easier to interpret than a linear listing of events and attribute values over time.…”

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A study of student strategies for the corrective maintenance of concurrent software

Fleming

Kraemer

Stirewalt

et al. 2008

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Software Engineering - ICSE '08

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Graduates of computer science degree programs are increasingly being asked to maintain large, multi-threaded software systems; however, the maintenance of such systems is typically not wellcovered by software engineering texts or curricula. We conducted a think-aloud study with 15 students in a graduate-level computer science class to discover the strategies that students apply, and to what effect, in performing corrective maintenance on concurrent software. We collected think-aloud and action protocols, and annotated the protocols for a number of behavioral attributes and maintenance strategies. We divided the protocols into groups based on the success of the participant in both diagnosing and correcting the failure. We evaluated these groups for statistically significant differences in these attributes and strategies.In this paper, we report a number of interesting observations that came from this study. All participants performed diagnostic executions of the program to aid program comprehension; however, the participants that used this as their predominant strategy for diagnosing the fault were all unsuccessful. Among the participants that successfully diagnosed the fault and displayed high confidence in their diagnosis, we found two commonalities. They all recognized that the fault involved the violation of a concurrent-programming idiom. And, they all constructed detailed behavioral models (similar to UML sequence diagrams) of execution scenarios. We present detailed analyses to explain the attributes that correlated with success or lack of success. Based on these analyses, we make recommendations for improving software engineering curriculums by better training students how to apply these strategies effectively.

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A study of student strategies for the corrective maintenance of concurrent software

Fleming

Kraemer

Stirewalt

et al. 2008

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Software Engineering - ICSE '08

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“…There are three kind of information needed to be obtained to reverse extract sequence diagram [3]: 1)the objects involved in interaction; 2)the messages exchanged between objects; 3)the control flows and control conditions associated with the interaction of objects. The objects involved in interaction can be obtained using object flow analysis.…”

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An Approach for Extracting UML Diagram from Object-Oriented Program Based on J2X

Zhang¹

2017

Proceedings of the 2016 International Forum on Mechanical, Control and Automation (IFMCA 2016)

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Abstract. Reverse engineering software system to extract UML model can help developer understand the structure and behavior of system. An approach for reverse extracting UML class diagram and sequence diagram from Object-Oriented program was proposed in this paper. Different from other extracting methods, our method is based on the intermediate language J2X which is a kind of markup language and stores semantic and structure information of programs. The method first transforms source code to J2X representation, then uses OFG(Object Flow Graph) and CFG(Control Flow Graph) analysis method to extract UML model based on J2X. The method can extract more accurate relationship between classes using OFG analysis. The method has a good accuracy and performance in extracting UML model according to the experiment in a set of test cases.

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“…Briand et al [5] propose a method to reverse engineer sequence diagrams from C++ applications, using Perl to implement the automatic instrumentation and Java to transform traces into sequence diagrams. They propose two meta-models, one to represent the recovered traces and the other to represent sequence diagrams, transforming one to the other based on OCL constraints.…”

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Automated Reverse Engineering of UML Sequence Diagrams for Dynamic Web Applications

Alalfi

Cordy

Dean

2009

2009 International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation Workshops

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This paper presents an approach and tool to automatically instrument dynamic web applications using source transformation technology, and to reverse engineer a UML 2.1 sequence diagram from the execution traces generated by the resulting instrumentation. The result can be directly imported and visualized in a UML toolset such as Rational Software Architect. Our approach dynamically filters traces to reduce redundant information that may complicate program understanding. While our current implementation works on PHP-based applications, the framework is easily extended to other scripting languages in plug-andplay fashion. In addition to supporting web application understanding, our tool is being used to recover traces from dynamic web applications in support of web application security analysis and testing. We demonstrate our method on the analysis of the popular internet bulletin board system PhpBB 2.0.

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Towards the reverse engineering of UML sequence diagrams

Cited by 45 publications

References 11 publications

A study of student strategies for the corrective maintenance of concurrent software

A study of student strategies for the corrective maintenance of concurrent software

An Approach for Extracting UML Diagram from Object-Oriented Program Based on J2X

Automated Reverse Engineering of UML Sequence Diagrams for Dynamic Web Applications

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