Capturing dynamic program behaviour with UML collaboration diagrams

Author

Kollmann, Ralf ; Gogolla, Martin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Bremen Univ., Germany

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

58

Lastpage

67

Abstract

The UML provides means to specify both static and dynamic aspects of object oriented software systems and can be used to assist in all phases of a software development process. With growing support by CASE tools, its applications become more and more widespread. In addition to the automatic generation of class code from diagrams, the recovery of static structure from source code has become common too. However, we focus on the extraction of behavioural information from program code. We introduce a restricted meta model for Java code and present a novel approach to extract the required data, which will then be rendered as UML collaboration diagrams

Keywords

Java; automatic programming; computer aided software engineering; diagrams; object-oriented programming; program diagnostics; reverse engineering; specification languages; CASE tools; Java code; UML collaboration diagrams; automatic generation; behavioural information; class code; dynamic aspects; dynamic program behaviour capture; object oriented software systems; program code; restricted meta model; software development process; source code; static structure recovery; Application software; Collaboration; Computer aided software engineering; Computer science; Data mining; Java; Object oriented modeling; Reverse engineering; Software systems; Unified modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance and Reengineering, 2001. Fifth European Conference on

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1028-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/.2001.914969

Filename

914969