Automated abstraction of class diagrams.

Egyed, Alexander

doi:10.1145/606612.606616

Automated abstraction of class diagrams.

by Alexander Egyed

Abstract:

Designers can easily become overwhelmed with details when dealing with large class diagrams. This article presents an approach for automated abstraction that allows designers to â€œzoom outâ€� on class diagrams to investigate and reason about their bigger picture. The approach is based on a large number of abstraction rules that individually are not very powerful, but when used together, can abstract complex class structures quickly. This article presents those abstraction rules and an algorithm for applying them. The technique was validated on over a dozen models where it was shown to be well suited for model understanding, consistency checking, and reverse engineering.

Reference:

Alexander Egyed, "Automated abstraction of class diagrams.", In ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodologies, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 449-491, 2002.

Bibtex Entry:

@Article{dblp:journals/tosem/Egyed02,
  Title                    = {Automated abstraction of class diagrams.},
  Author                   = {Alexander Egyed},
  Journal                  = {ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodologies},
  Year                     = {2002},
  Number                   = {4},
  Pages                    = {449-491},
  Volume                   = {11},

  Abstract                 = {Designers can easily become overwhelmed with details when dealing with large class diagrams. This article presents an approach for automated abstraction that allows designers to â€œzoom outâ€� on class diagrams to investigate and reason about their bigger picture. The approach is based on a large number of abstraction rules that individually are not very powerful, but when used together, can abstract complex class structures quickly. This article presents those abstraction rules and an algorithm for applying them. The technique was validated on over a dozen models where it was shown to be well suited for model understanding, consistency checking, and reverse engineering.},
  Doi                      = {10.1145/606612.606616},
  File                     = {Automated Abstraction of Class Diagrams:Journals\\TOSEM 2002 - Automated Abstraction of Class Diagrams\\Automated Abstraction of Class Diagrams.pdf:PDF},
  Keywords                 = {reverseeng}
}