A Reverse Engineering Tool for Precise Class Diagrams

A Reverse Engineering Tool for Precise Class Diagrams. Gu�h�neuc, Y. In Singer, J. & Lutfiyya, H., editors, Proceedings of the 14th IBM Centers for Advanced Studies Conference (CASCON), pages 28–41, October, 2004. ACM Press. 14 pages.

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Developers use class diagrams to describe the architecture of their programs intensively. Class diagrams represent the structure and global behaviour of programs. They show the programs classes and interfaces and their relationships of inheritance, instantiation, use, association, aggregation and composition. Class diagrams could provide useful data during programs maintenance. However, they often are obsolete and imprecise: They do not reflect the \emphreal implementation and behaviour of programs. We propose a reverse-engineering tool suite, Ptidej, to build precise class diagrams from Java programs, with respect to their implementation and behaviour. We describe static and dynamic models of Java programs and algorithms to analyse these models and to build class diagrams. In particular, we detail algorithms to infer use, association, aggregation, and composition relationships, because these relationships do not have precise definitions. We show that class diagrams obtained semi-automatically are similar to those obtained manually and more precise than those provided usually.

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   TITLE        = {A Reverse Engineering Tool for Precise Class Diagrams},
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   ABSTRACT     = {Developers use class diagrams to des\-cribe the 
      architecture of their programs intensively. Class diagrams represent 
      the structure and global behaviour of programs. They show the 
      programs classes and interfaces and their relationships of 
      inheritance, instantiation, use, association, aggregation and 
      composition. Class diagrams could provide useful data during programs 
      maintenance. However, they often are obsolete and imprecise: They do 
      not reflect the \emph{real} implementation and behaviour of programs. 
      We propose a reverse-engineering tool suite, Ptidej{}, to build 
      precise class diagrams from Java{} programs, with respect to their 
      implementation and behaviour. We describe static and dynamic models 
      of Java{} programs and algorithms to analyse these models and to 
      build class diagrams. In particular, we detail algorithms to infer 
      use, association, aggregation, and composition relationships, because 
      these relationships do not have precise definitions. We show that 
      class diagrams obtained semi-automatically are similar to those 
      obtained manually and more precise than those provided usually.}
}

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