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A Tool for Efficiently Reverse Engineering Accurate UML Class Diagrams
- Source :
- ICSME
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- IEEE, 2016.
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Abstract
- A tool that reverse engineers UML class diagrams from C++ source code is presented. The tool takes srcML as input and produces yUML as output. srcML is an XML representation of the abstract syntactic information of source code. The srcML parser (srcML.org) is highly scalable, efficient, and robust. yUML is a textual format for UML class diagrams that can be easily rendered into a graphical diagram via a web service (yUML.me) or a tool such as Graphvis. The approach utilizes efficient SAX (Simple API for XML) parsing to collect the information needed to construct the class diagram. Currently it supports the following UML features: differentiating between class, data type, or interface, identifying design level attributes, multiplicity and type, determining parameter direction, and identification of the relationships aggregation, composition, generalization, and realization. The tool produces yUML for all of Calligra (~1,144KLOC) in under 20 seconds (including translation into srcML). The tool is open source under a GPL license and available for download at srcML.org.
- Subjects :
- UML tool
Reverse engineering
Class (computer programming)
Source code
Theoretical computer science
computer.internet_protocol
Programming language
Computer science
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Applications of UML
020207 software engineering
02 engineering and technology
computer.software_genre
Simple API for XML
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
020201 artificial intelligence & image processing
Class diagram
computer
XML
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Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- 2016 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........ac2b42abe3aed8b3800da1ab256b536f