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Published Articles >> Table of Contents >> Abstract
10th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC'03)
p. 60
Discovering Use Cases from Source Code using the Branch-Reserving Call Graph
Tao Qin, Peking University, China
Lu Zhang, Peking University, China
Zhiying Zhou, Peking University, China
Dan Hao, Peking University, China
Jiasu Sun, Peking University, China
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Understanding the behavior of a software system is an
important problem in program comprehension. Use cases
have been accepted as an effective means for describing
behavioral requirements for a software system. In this
paper, we propose a novel approach for obtaining use
cases from source code. The central idea of our approach
is to use the Branch-Reserving Call Graph (BRCG) as the
intermediate representation of a software program. We
also provide strategies for pruning the BRCG to avoid
generating too many fine-grained use cases. Use cases,
which may just undergo some minor modifications from
human experts, can be generated through traversing the
pruned BRCG. The contributions of our approach are
three-fold. i) This method represents a compromised
approach, which differs from both the static and dynamic
approaches for use case discovery. ii) This method takes
into consideration the fact that it is the branch statements
that separate one use case from another in source code.
iii) This method can avoid intensive human involvement
in determining the final set of use cases. We have also
performed a case study for this method on a GNU system.
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Index Terms- Use Case Discovery, Use Case, Program
Comprehension, Reverse Engineering, Branch-Reserving
Call Graph
Citation:
Tao Qin, Lu Zhang, Zhiying Zhou, Dan Hao, Jiasu Sun,
"Discovering Use Cases from Source Code using the Branch-Reserving Call Graph,"
apsec,
p. 60,
10th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC'03),
2003
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