Combining static and dynamic analyses to reverse-engineer scenario diagrams

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 130-139

  Labiche, Yvan ^a   Kolbah, Bojana ^a   Mehrfard, Hossein ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dynamic analysis; Reverse engineering; Scenario diagram; Sequence diagram; Static analysis

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC INFORMATION; MODEL TRANSFORMATION; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; RUN-TIME INFORMATION; SCENARIO DIAGRAM; SEQUENCE DIAGRAMS; STATIC AND DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; UML SEQUENCE DIAGRAMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; REVERSE ENGINEERING; STATIC ANALYSIS;

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 84891697526     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2013.24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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