A study on the current state of the art in tool-supported UML-based static reverse engineering

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 22-32

  Kollmann, Ralf ^a   Selonen, Petri ^b   Stroulia, Eleni ^c   Systä, Tarja ^b   Zündorf, Albert ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

empirical study; static reverse engineering; tool evaluation; UML

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; MODELING LANGUAGES; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; ENGINEERING ACTIVITIES; INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH; OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; RESEARCH PROTOTYPE; REVERSE ENGINEERED MODELS; TOOL EVALUATIONS; UML;

UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

EID: 84952883149     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2002.1173061     Document Type: Conference Paper

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