Mohammad I. Muhairat, Akram A. Abdelqader
Jun 2016 International Journal of Software Engineering and its Applications
ABSTRACT
This paper proposes a mathematical model to verify a reverse engineering approach which converts a form fill format document into a UML class diagram. The proposed approach used to convert a form fill format document into a UML class diagram consists of the following phases. The first phase is the capturing process that scans the form document and identifies the form components into tables; the second step is the normalization process that normalizes the tables in the first phase. The third phase is the mapping process to construct and build the relationship diagram. Finally, the translation process is conducted to construct and build the class diagrams. To verify the correctness of algorithms Interpreted Perti Nets Models will be generated to implement the proposed transformation processes (i.e. Capturing, normalization, mapping, and translation process). This verification is done because the importance of this approach as a helpful algorithm for researchers and practitioners in the Software Engineering field, since most of the reverse engineering approaches are based on source code. This approach is tested by using several word form fill format documents and shows a significant result.