Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: Software Engineering research and industry recognize the need for practical tools to support reverse engineering activities. Most of the well-known CASE-tools nowadays support reverse engineering in some way or other. Reverse engineering is first step towards software Architecture recovery. The most commonly used standard today is Unified Modeling Language to depict the architecture and design of an application. An UML class diagram describes the architecture of object oriented programs. Class diagram captures the essence of its design. Most of the existing systems do not have reliable software architecture and some legacy systems are designed without software architecture design phase. By using reverse engineering tools we can generate class diagram as part of software architecture recovery. In this paper we assess capabilities of software reverse engineering tools to generate class diagram from java source code.
DOI: 10.5120/3559-4894
Authors: Shivani Budhkar, Dr. Arpita Gopal
Institutions: Bharathiar University, Lady Doak College
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2102456477