Program abstraction by transformation: Abstraction of Visual Basic to UML

Kevin Lano; Shekoufeh Kolahdouz Rahimi

Program abstraction by transformation: Abstraction of Visual Basic to UML

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Abstract

Program abstraction is a key step in the extraction of information from executable code, in order to understand legacy code, produce documentation in the form of models, or to perform reengineering to an alternative program platform/language. Several special-purpose model transformation languages have been developed
to perform program abstraction, however it remains an open research question what kinds of transformation facilities and techniques are most appropriate for the problem. In this case, we define a task for abstracting a subset of VB6/VBA to UML and OCL, this task can be used to perform comparative evaluation of different
transformation approaches for the abstraction problem.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Transformation Tool Contest
Number of pages	8
Volume	3620
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 19 Jun 2023
Event	Transformation Tool Contest - Duration: 20 Jul 2023 → …

Publication series

Name	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Publisher	CEUR-WS
ISSN (Print)	1613-0073

Conference

Conference	Transformation Tool Contest
Period	20/07/23 → …

Access to Document

https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3620/ttc23_paper01.pdf

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