An Ameliorated Methodology to Abstract Object Oriented Features from Programming System

• Main Authors: Handigund, Shivanand M., Arunakumari, B.N.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Subjects: Class diagram; Classing technique; Object method; Object structure; Reverse engineering; Slicing technique; Visibility
• ISSN: 1877-0509; 1877-0509
• DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2015.08.518

In software testing through reverse engineering, the programming semiotics are to be transformed to Unified Modeling Language (UML) semiotics. This process needs the abstraction of UML syntactics, semantics from the programming system. As a preamble, this paper attempts to develop an automated methodology to abstract object oriented technology (OOT) components required for the class diagram from the programming system to be tested for its correctness & completeness. The methodology comprises of initial classing & slicing the programming system on the referenced attributes of the entry with no defined attributes and then using the sole referenced entry and sole defined entry on these sliced programming units the candidate key/s are identified which are used to find individual object structure of the class in our classing technique. The programming system is sliced based on individual class structure and then these slices are used to obtain the object methods through whose nature of the parameters we identify the interrelationship between the classes and their types. The intermediate clairvoyant study of parameter indicates the visibility of the object methods. This paper contains the detailed procedure for each method of our automated methodology. Therefore, their correctness and completeness is self evident. The proposed procedures are based on sound logical positivism and implicitly incorporate good database design and good software engineering principles. This paper reengineers the programming system into various appropriate UML design diagrams so as to reduce the enormity of the syntactics and semantics of programming language into limited syntactics and semantics. This enables to develop the correct and complete software testing methodology.