Recovering Behavioral Design Models from Execution Traces

Authors:
Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj;Edna Braun;Daniel Amyot;Timothy Lethbridge
Affiliations:
University of Ottawa;University of Ottawa;University of Ottawa;University of Ottawa
Venue:
CSMR '05 Proceedings of the Ninth European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Recovering behavioral design models from execution traces is not an easy task due to the sheer size of typical traces. In this paper, we describe a novel technique for achieving this. Our approach is based on filtering traces by distinguishing the utility components from the ones that implement high-level concepts. In the paper, we first define the concept of utilities; then we present an algorithm based on fan-in analysis that can be used for the detection of utilities. To represent the high-level behavioral models, we explore the Use Case Map (UCM) notation, which is a language used to describe and understand emergent behavior of complex and dynamic systems. Finally, we test the validity of our approach on an object-oriented system called TConfig.