Navigating Through the Design of Object-Oriented Programs

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Epameinondas Gasparis, Jonathan Nicholson, Amnon H. Eden, Rick Kazman
15th Working Conf. on Reverse Engineering—WCRE (15–18 Oct. 2008), Antwerp, Belgium
Publication year: 2008
The Design Navigator is a tool for reverse-engineering object-oriented programs into formal charts of any level of abstraction. We show how the Design Navigator discovers abstract building-blocks in the design of programs and how it visualises them in terms of LePUS3, a formal Design Description Language. We demonstrate why reverse engineering programs into a formal modelling and specification language is not only possible in principle but also of practical benefit.
 
Step 1: AllClasses stands for the set of all classes in java.util.logging

Step 1: AllClasses stands for the set of all classes in java.util.logging

 
Step 2: Class hierarchies, class sets, dynamically-bound methods and correlations amongst them in java.util.logging

Step 2: Class hierarchies, class sets, dynamically-bound methods and correlations amongst them in java.util.logging

 
Step 3: Some classes, methods, and correlations in <code>java.util.logging</code>

Step 3: Some classes, methods, and correlations in java.util.logging