Date of Award
8-2007
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Legacy Department
Computer Science
Committee Chair/Advisor
Malloy, Brian
Abstract
In maintaining, designing, and testing of OO systems, understanding the relationships between the classes and corresponding objects is imperative. Class diagrams provide program visualization that promotes easier understanding of large systems. Class diagrams are especially helpful when systems become too large to conceptualize without automated graphical illustration. There are many tools available to software developers that permit generation of class diagrams for large scale computing applications, many of which use various parsing approaches to extract information for a class diagram. In this paper, we compare and evaluate three tools that extract information for class diagrams from different phases of the compilation process: a fuzzy parse of the program, a parse tree representation of the program, and an abstract syntax graph to represent the program. Using three tools we generate class diagrams from a test suite of OO systems, and compute metrics on these diagrams as a means of comparing them.
Recommended Citation
Bailey iii, Robert, "A Comparison of Class Diagram Construction at Three Different Phases of Compilation" (2007). All Theses. 159.
https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/159