Tonella / Potrich Reverse Engineering of Object Oriented Code

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-387-23803-6
Verlag: Springer-Verlag
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

During maintenance of a software system, not all questions can be answered directly by resorting to otherwise reliable and accurate source code. Reverse engineering aims at extracting abstract, goal-oriented views of the system, able to summarize relevant properties of the program's computations. Reverse Engineering of Object-Oriented Code provides a comprehensive overview of several techniques that have been recently investigated in the field of reverse engineering. The book describes the algorithms involved in recovering UML diagrams from the code and the techniques that can be adopted for their visualization. This is important because the UML has become the standard for representing design diagrams in object-oriented development. A state-of-the-art exposition on how to design object-oriented code and accompanying algorithms that can be reverse engineered for greater flexibility in future code maintenance and alteration. Essential object-oriented concepts and programming methods for software engineers and researchers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tonella, Paolo

Potrich, Alessandra

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;7
2;Foreword;10
3;Preface;12
4;Introduction;14
4.1;1.1 Reverse Engineering;14
4.2;1.2 The eLib Program;16
4.3;1.3 Class Diagram;18
4.4;1.4 Object Diagram;21
4.5;1.5 Interaction Diagrams;23
4.6;1.6 State Diagrams;27
4.7;1.7 Organization of the Book;31
5;The Object Flow Graph;33
5.1;2.1 Abstract Language;33
5.2;2.2 Object Flow Graph;37
5.3;2.3 Containers;39
5.4;2.4 Flow Propagation Algorithm;42
5.5;2.5 Object sensitivity;44
5.6;2.6 The eLib Program;48
5.7;2.7 Related Work;52
6;Class Diagram;54
6.1;3.1 Class Diagram Recovery;55
6.2;3.2 Declared vs. actual types;58
6.3;3.3 Containers;62
6.4;3.4 The eLib Program;67
6.5;3.5 Related Work;70
7;Object Diagram;73
7.1;4.1 The Object Diagram;74
7.2;4.2 Object Diagram Recovery;75
7.3;4.3 Object Sensitivity;78
7.4;4.5 The eLib Program;88
7.5;4.6 Related Work;97
8;Interaction Diagrams;98
8.1;5.1 Interaction Diagrams;99
8.2;5.2 Interaction Diagram Recovery;100
8.3;5.3 Dynamic Analysis;111
8.4;5.4 The eLib Program;115
8.5;5.5 Related Work;121
9;State Diagrams;123
9.1;6.1 State Diagrams;124
9.2;6.2 Abstract Interpretation;126
9.3;6.3 State Diagram Recovery;130
9.4;6.4 The eLib Program;133
9.5;6.5 Related Work;139
10;Package Diagram;141
10.1;7.1 Package Diagram Recovery;142
10.2;7.2 Clustering;144
10.3;7.3 Concept Analysis;151
10.4;7.4 The eLib Program;156
10.5;7.5 Related Work;160
11;Conclusions;163
11.1;8.1 Tool Architecture;164
11.2;8.2 The eLib Program;167
11.3;8.3 Perspectives;178
11.4;8.4 Related Work;180
12;Source Code of the eLib program;182
13;Driver class for the eLib program;192
14;References;197
15;Index;204