Experiences with the development of a reverse engineering tool for UML sequence diagrams: A case study in modern Java development

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 178, Issue , 2006, Pages 125-134

  Merdes, Matthias ^a   Dorsch, Dirk ^a  

^a EML Research gGmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Java technology; Reverse engineering; Sequence diagrams; UML models

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DECISION MAKING; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

JAVA PLATFORM; META-MODEL; SEQUENCE DIAGRAMS;

REVERSE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34547260950     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1168054.1168072     Document Type: Conference Paper

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