Automated reverse engineering of UML sequence diagrams for dynamic web applications

IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation Workshops, ICSTW 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 287-294

  Alalfi, Manar H ^a   Cordy, James R ^a   Dean, Thomas R ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC WEB APPLICATIONS; EXECUTION TRACE; INTERNET BULLETIN BOARDS; PLUG-AND-PLAY; PROGRAM UNDERSTANDING; REDUNDANT INFORMATIONS; REVERSE ENGINEERS; SCRIPTING LANGUAGES; SEQUENCE DIAGRAMS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTS; SOURCE TRANSFORMATION; TOOLSETS; UML SEQUENCE DIAGRAMS; WEB APPLICATION; WEB APPLICATION SECURITY;

BULLETIN BOARDS; REENGINEERING; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE TESTING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; VERIFICATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 69949101497     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSTW.2009.8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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