Reverse Object Oriented Design Methodology (R-OODM)

Software design plays a vital role in better understanding of the software system and its architecture. It also provides help throughout the software development life cycle and afterwards in its maintenance as well. Web applications have been emerging enormously and subjected to continuous changes due to high competition in the market. But u nfortunately, most of the web applications are implemented without producing any formal design documentation for its subsequent maintenance and evolution. Therefore, the maintenance of these applications becomes a challenging problem as the complexity of the web application grows. The reverse engineering techniques has been used to support effective web application maintenance. We have proposed a Reverse Object Oriented Design Methodology (R-OODM) that extracts the design of web application using design phase models of OODM [1][15], based upon water fall model. A tool has also been developed for implementation of this reverse object oriented design methodology.

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