Extracting Object Oriented Software Architecture from C++ Source Code

Software architecture strongly influences the ability to satisfy quality attributes such as modifiability, performance, and security. It is important to be able to analyse and extract information about that architecture. However, architectural documentation frequently does not exist, and when it...

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Main Author:	Mresa, Ali Hussein A.
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English English
Published:	2000
Subjects:	Software architecture Object-oriented programming languages C++ (Computer program language)
Online Access:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/9650/1/FSKTM_2000_6_IR.pdf
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spelling	my-upm-ir.96502023-11-29T02:45:17Z Extracting Object Oriented Software Architecture from C++ Source Code 2000-10 Mresa, Ali Hussein A. Software architecture strongly influences the ability to satisfy quality attributes such as modifiability, performance, and security. It is important to be able to analyse and extract information about that architecture. However, architectural documentation frequently does not exist, and when it does, it is often out of sync with the implemented system. In addition, it is not all that software development begins with a clean slate; systems are almost always constrained by the existing legacy code. As a consequence, there is a need to extract information from existing system implementations and reason architecturally about this information. This research presents a reverse engineering tool VOO++ that will read an Object- Oriented C++ source code using UML notation in order to visualise its Class structure and the various relationships that may exist including, inheritance, aggregation, and dependency relationships based on the modified Cohen-Sutherland clipping algorithm. The idea of clipping is reversed, instead of clipping inside the rectangle, the clipping is done out side the rectangle in terms of four directions (left, right, top, and bottom) and two points represent the centre point for each rectangle. An Object-Oriented approach is used to design and implement the tool. Reverse engineering, design pattern, and graphics are the underlying techniques supplied. VOO++ aids an analyst in extracting, manipulating and interpreting the Object-Oriented static model information. By assisting in the reconstruction of static architectures from extracted information, VOO++ helps an analyst to redocument and understand architectures and discover the relationship between "as-implemented" and "asdesigned" architectures. Software architecture Object-oriented programming languages C++ (Computer program language) 2000-10 Thesis http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/9650/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/9650/1/FSKTM_2000_6_IR.pdf text en public masters Universiti Putra Malaysia Software architecture Object-oriented programming languages C++ (Computer program language) Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology Abd. Ghani, Abdul Azim English
institution	Universiti Putra Malaysia
collection	PSAS Institutional Repository
language	English English
advisor	Abd. Ghani, Abdul Azim
topic	Software architecture Object-oriented programming languages C++ (Computer program language)
spellingShingle	Software architecture Object-oriented programming languages C++ (Computer program language) Mresa, Ali Hussein A. Extracting Object Oriented Software Architecture from C++ Source Code
description	Software architecture strongly influences the ability to satisfy quality attributes such as modifiability, performance, and security. It is important to be able to analyse and extract information about that architecture. However, architectural documentation frequently does not exist, and when it does, it is often out of sync with the implemented system. In addition, it is not all that software development begins with a clean slate; systems are almost always constrained by the existing legacy code. As a consequence, there is a need to extract information from existing system implementations and reason architecturally about this information. This research presents a reverse engineering tool VOO++ that will read an Object- Oriented C++ source code using UML notation in order to visualise its Class structure and the various relationships that may exist including, inheritance, aggregation, and dependency relationships based on the modified Cohen-Sutherland clipping algorithm. The idea of clipping is reversed, instead of clipping inside the rectangle, the clipping is done out side the rectangle in terms of four directions (left, right, top, and bottom) and two points represent the centre point for each rectangle. An Object-Oriented approach is used to design and implement the tool. Reverse engineering, design pattern, and graphics are the underlying techniques supplied. VOO++ aids an analyst in extracting, manipulating and interpreting the Object-Oriented static model information. By assisting in the reconstruction of static architectures from extracted information, VOO++ helps an analyst to redocument and understand architectures and discover the relationship between "as-implemented" and "asdesigned" architectures.
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qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Mresa, Ali Hussein A.
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title	Extracting Object Oriented Software Architecture from C++ Source Code
title_short	Extracting Object Oriented Software Architecture from C++ Source Code
title_full	Extracting Object Oriented Software Architecture from C++ Source Code
title_fullStr	Extracting Object Oriented Software Architecture from C++ Source Code
title_full_unstemmed	Extracting Object Oriented Software Architecture from C++ Source Code
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granting_institution	Universiti Putra Malaysia
granting_department	Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology
publishDate	2000
url	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/9650/1/FSKTM_2000_6_IR.pdf
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