Authors:
Liliana Martinez
1
;
Claudia Pereira
1
and
Liliana Favre
2
Affiliations:
1
Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina
;
2
Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires and Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Keyword(s):
Architecture-Driven Modernization, Reverse Engineering, Model Driven Architecture, Knowledge Discovery Metamodel.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Cross-Feeding between Data and Software Engineering
;
Model-Driven Engineering
;
Service-Oriented Software Engineering and Management
;
Software Engineering
;
Software Engineering Methods and Techniques
;
Software Process Improvement
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 engineer
ing 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.
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