@inproceedings{c7784af8488b475fb068b11552502435,
title = "Extraction of state machines of legacy C code with Cpp2XMI",
abstract = "Analysis of legacy code is often focussed on extracting either metrics or relations, e.g. call relations or structure relations. For object-oriented programs, e.g. Java or C++ code, such relations are commonly represented as UML diagrams: e.g., such tools as Columbus [1] and Cpp2XMI [2] are capable of extracting from the C++ code UML class, and UML class, sequence and activity diagrams, respectively. New challenges in UML diagram extraction arise when a) additional UML diagrams and b) non-object-oriented programs are considered. In this paper we present an ongoing work on extracting state machines from the legacy C code, motivated by the popularity of state machine models in embedded software [3]. To validate the approach we consider an approximately ten-years old embedded system provided by the industrial partner. The system lacks up-to-date documentation and is reportedly hard to maintain.",
author = "{Brand, van den}, M.G.J. and A. Serebrenik and {Zeeland, van}, D.",
year = "2008",
language = "English",
series = "Computer Science Reports",
publisher = "Technische Universiteit Eindhoven",
pages = "28--30",
editor = "A. Serebrenik",
booktitle = "7th Belgian-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop (Benevol 2008, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, December 11-12, 2008, Informal pre-proceedings)",
}