Reverse Engineering: An Analysis of Static Behaviors of Object Oriented Programs by Extracting UML Class Diagram

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) has been accepted as a standard for modeling object oriented system. It helps the designer to understand a problem well by focusing on one aspects of a problem at a time. In this paper we present a novel approach in which reverse engineering is performed and we have chosen UML as the modeling language to achieve a representation of the implemented system. In this work we have considered java programs. After a brief introduction to the subject, we present some analyses which go beyond mere enumeration of methods and fields. We sketch a method which determines classes and their attribute, operation and relationship: generalization, aggregation, association and various kind of dependencies in form of a simple class diagram that can be understood by a programmer when inspecting the source code of a given java programs. To fully understand the behavior of a system, it is crucial to have efficient techniques to reverse static views of the system. In this paper, we focus on the reverse engineering to find UML class diagram from an object oriented system and analysis of its static behavior.