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Methods, Algorithms and Software for the UML Class Diagram Refactoring

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Modern Information Technology and IT Education (SITITO 2017)

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This article considers the problem of UML class diagram refactoring. It gives a brief overview of the approaches to the UML class diagram describing, transformation and refactoring. Article also proposes a software tool for the UML class diagram refactoring called UML Refactoring. This software tool provides import of diagrams in XMI format, OO-metrics calculation. UML Refactoring tool searches for the transformations, which decrease a fitness function value. Article presents an algorithm of a prototype CLANG plugin, which receives C++ source code at the input and returns UML class diagram in XMI format.

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The work results were used within framework of the state task of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, project No. 8.2321.2017 “Development and adaptation of control systems for compensation of dynamic deflecting effects on mobile objects in a state of dynamic equilibrium”.

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Deryugina, O., Nikulchev, E. (2021). Methods, Algorithms and Software for the UML Class Diagram Refactoring. In: Sukhomlin, V., Zubareva, E. (eds) Modern Information Technology and IT Education. SITITO 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1204. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78273-3_18

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