A Meta-model for Representing Language-independent Primary Dependency Structures

Ioana Șora

2012

Abstract

Reverse engineering creates models of software systems, at a higher level of abstraction or in a form suitable to a particular analysis. This article presents a meta-model that provides a unitary way of describing primary dependency structures in software systems. It extracts and conceptualizes similarities between different programming languages which, moreover, belong to any of the object-oriented as well as the procedural programming paradigms. The proposed meta-model is validated by the implementation of different tools for model extraction from programs written in Java, C# (CIL) and ANSI C. The utility of the proposed metamodel is shown by supporting a number of different analysis applications such as architectural reconstruction, impact analysis, modularization analysis, refactoring decisions.

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Șora I. (2012). A Meta-model for Representing Language-independent Primary Dependency Structures . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-8565-13-6, pages 65-74. DOI: 10.5220/0003991400650074


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@conference{enase12,
author={Ioana Șora},
title={A Meta-model for Representing Language-independent Primary Dependency Structures},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2012},
pages={65-74},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003991400650074},
isbn={978-989-8565-13-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - A Meta-model for Representing Language-independent Primary Dependency Structures
SN - 978-989-8565-13-6
AU - Șora I.
PY - 2012
SP - 65
EP - 74
DO - 10.5220/0003991400650074