Reverse engineering process for the generation of UML diagrams in web services composition

Abstract

Reverse engineering is a process that allows us to optimize and reuse code and applications based on a complete analysis of such code. This permits us to generate a new idea that it is based on an already existent one and it creates or improves the tool in which it is applied. In addition, UML activity diagrams are graphic representations of processes that facilitate the way in which we perceive and understand the order of execution of individual processes. It also provides visual representation of the primary subsystems that define the entire process. This work presents the application of reverse engineering to a transformation mechanism in WSCDL, which allows the generation of UML activity diagrams from WSCDL documents, and includes a case study to exemplify the functionality of this mechanism.