Extracting UML Class Diagrams from Object-Oriented Fortran: ForUML
Joint Authors
Morris, Karla
Nanthaamornphong, Aziz
Carver, Jeffrey
Filippone, Salvatore
Source
Issue
Vol. 2015, Issue 2015 (31 Dec. 2015), pp.1-15, 15 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2015-05-28
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
15
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Many scientists who implement computational science and engineering software have adopted the object-oriented (OO) Fortran paradigm.
One of the challenges faced by OO Fortran developers is the inability to obtain high level software design descriptions of existing applications.
Knowledge of the overall software design is not only valuable in the absence of documentation, it can also serve to assist developers with accomplishing different tasks during the software development process, especially maintenance and refactoring.
The software engineering community commonly uses reverse engineering techniques to deal with this challenge.
A number of reverse engineering-based tools have been proposed, but few of them can be applied to OO Fortran applications.
In this paper, we propose a software tool to extract unified modeling language (UML) class diagrams from Fortran code.
The UML class diagram facilitates the developers' ability to examine the entities and their relationships in the software system.
The extracted diagrams enhance software maintenance and evolution.
The experiments carried out to evaluate the proposed tool show its accuracy and a few of the limitations.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Nanthaamornphong, Aziz& Carver, Jeffrey& Morris, Karla& Filippone, Salvatore. 2015. Extracting UML Class Diagrams from Object-Oriented Fortran: ForUML. Scientific Programming،Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1076536
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Nanthaamornphong, Aziz…[et al.]. Extracting UML Class Diagrams from Object-Oriented Fortran: ForUML. Scientific Programming No. 2015 (2015), pp.1-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1076536
American Medical Association (AMA)
Nanthaamornphong, Aziz& Carver, Jeffrey& Morris, Karla& Filippone, Salvatore. Extracting UML Class Diagrams from Object-Oriented Fortran: ForUML. Scientific Programming. 2015. Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1076536
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1076536