Recovering Sequence Diagrams from Object-oriented Code - An ADM Approach

Liliana Martinez, Claudia Pereira, Liliana Favre

2014

Abstract

Software modernization is a current research area in the software industry intended to transform an existing software system to a new one satisfying new demands. The initiative Architecture-Driven Modernization (ADM) helps software developers in tackling reverse engineering, software evolution and, software modernization in general. To support modernization problems, the ADM Task Force has defined a set of metamodels such as KDM (Knowledge Discovery Metamodel), being the Eclipse-MDT MoDisco project the official support for software modernization. We propose the application of ADM principles to provide relevant model-based views on legacy systems. We describe a framework to reverse engineering models from object-oriented code. In this context, we show how to recover UML sequence diagrams from Java code. We validate our approach by using ADM standards and MoDisco platform. Our research can be considered a contribution to the MoDisco community; MoDisco does not support reverse engineering of sequence diagrams and, on the other hand, the MoDisco KDM Discover was used and enriched to obtain the required information for recovering interaction diagrams.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Martinez L., Pereira C. and Favre L. (2014). Recovering Sequence Diagrams from Object-oriented Code - An ADM Approach . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-758-030-7, pages 188-195. DOI: 10.5220/0004894201880195

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase14,
author={Liliana Martinez and Claudia Pereira and Liliana Favre},
title={Recovering Sequence Diagrams from Object-oriented Code - An ADM Approach},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2014},
pages={188-195},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004894201880195},
isbn={978-989-758-030-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - Recovering Sequence Diagrams from Object-oriented Code - An ADM Approach
SN - 978-989-758-030-7
AU - Martinez L.
AU - Pereira C.
AU - Favre L.
PY - 2014
SP - 188
EP - 195
DO - 10.5220/0004894201880195