NDLI: Parallel Parsing-Based Reverse Engineering

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Andrei, S.
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	Parsing descriptive programming languages, such as eXtendable Markup Language (XML) and Unified Modeling Language (UML), has been an active area of research. Lam, Ding, and Liu claim that among all important phases of XML (e.g., parsing, access, modification, and serialization), parsing is the most time-consuming one. That motivates investigation of efficient parsing techniques with applications in many computer science areas, including reverse engineering.While there are many works on parsing XML, there is still room for research about UML parsing. UML parsing is still challenging because UML deals with graphical representations, such as class icons, class diagrams, sequence diagrams, state diagrams, and not text representations that are input for traditional parsers. Reverse engineering is an important sub-area in software engineering and it basically means obtaining the UML specification from a source program described in an (object-oriented) programming language. This paper describes a new application of a non-traditional parallel parsing technique for a Uniform Petal Language (UPL) program. Our bidirectional parser takes as input a UPL program, that is, a text representation of a UML specification. The benefits of parsing a UPL program are checking the correctness of the UML specification and obtaining the productions that lead to that UPL program. Consequently, the UPL program can be generated from the associated set of productions. The set of productions associated to a correct UPL program is a very condensed way to store it. Keeping a specification as minimum as possible, but expressive, is an important concept of reverse engineering. We have implemented a bidirectional parser for context free languages, including UPL, in Java programming language, called Parsing Uniform petAl Language (PUPAL), and compare it with CUP, a state-of-the-art parser for Java designed by Hudson, Flannery, and Ananian. The experimental results considered several UPL programs and concluded that PUPAL performs better than CUP.
Starting Page	503
Ending Page	507
File Size	229591
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780769535074
DOI	10.1109/CSIE.2009.993
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-03-31
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Java Reverse engineering Unified modeling language reverse engineering Application software Computer science Computer languages parallel parsing UML XML Production Computer industry Software engineering
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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