quartz/content/notes/16-reverse engineering.md

title	aliases	tags
16-reverse engineering		info201 lecture

Java -> UML reverse engineering

reverse of foward engineering

• parse java doe and egenerate corresponding uml diagrams
• useful to generate models of existing systems
• code usually has more detail than can be represented in diagrams
• automated diagram layout likely to be ugly ⇒ manual clean up
• some language specific features may not translate