Toward the reverse engineering of UML sequence diagrams for distributed Java software

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 642-663

  Briand, Lionel C ^a   Labiche, Yvan ^a   Leduc, Johanne ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

AspectJ; Distribution; OCL; Reverse engineering; RMI; Sequence diagram; UML

Indexed keywords

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

ASPECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE; SEQUENCE DIAGRAM; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE (UML);

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33750206389     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2006.96     Document Type: Conference Paper

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