REM4j - A Framework for Measuring the Reverse Engineering Capability of UML CASE Tools

Reverse Engineering is becoming increasingly important in the software development world today as many organizations are battling to understand and maintain old legacy systems. Today’s software engineers have inherited these legacy systems which they may know little about yet have to maintain, extend and improve. Currently there is no framework or strategy that an organisation can use to determine which UML CASE tool to use. This paper sets down such a framework, to allow organisations to base their tool choice on this reliable framework. We present the REM4j tool, an automated tool, for benchmarking UML CASE tools, we then use REM4j to carry out one such evaluation with eleven UML CASE tools. This framework allows us to reach a conclusion as to which is the most accurate and reliable UML CASE tool.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: SEKE
• Authors: Steven Kearney, James F. Power
• Keywords: Legacy Systems, Reliable Uml Case, SEKE 2007, Uml Case Tool