Mining Hierarchical UML Sequence Diagrams from Event Logs of SOA Systems while Balancing between Abstracted and Detailed Models
In this paper, we consider an approach to reverse engineering of UML sequence diagrams from event logs of information systems with a service-oriented architecture (SOA). UML sequence diagrams are graphical models quite suitable for representing interactions in heterogeneous component systems; in par...
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Ivannikov Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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| description | In this paper, we consider an approach to reverse engineering of UML sequence diagrams from event logs of information systems with a service-oriented architecture (SOA). UML sequence diagrams are graphical models quite suitable for representing interactions in heterogeneous component systems; in particular, the latter include increasingly popular SOA-based information systems. The approach deals with execution traces of SOA systems, represented in the form of event logs. Event logs are created by almost all modern information systems primarily for debug purposes. In contrast with conventional reverse engineering techniques that require source code for analysis, our approach for inferring UML sequence diagrams deals only with available logs and some heuristic knowledge. Our method consists of several stages of building UML sequence diagrams according to different perspectives set by the analyst. They include mapping log attributes to diagram elements, thereby determining a level of abstraction, grouping several components of a diagram and building hierarchical diagrams. We propose to group some of diagram components (messages and lifelines) based on regular expressions and build hierarchical diagrams using nested fragments. The approach is evaluated in a software prototype implemented as a Microsoft Visio add-in. The add-in builds a UML sequence diagram from a given event log according to a set of customizable settings. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-77d65992a7bc45cfa6e22432062748472022-12-22T00:11:54ZengIvannikov Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of SciencesТруды Института системного программирования РАН2079-81562220-64262018-10-012838510210.15514/ISPRAS-2016-28(3)-6111Mining Hierarchical UML Sequence Diagrams from Event Logs of SOA Systems while Balancing between Abstracted and Detailed ModelsK. V. Davydova0S. A. Shershakov1Национальный исследовательский университет Высшая школа экономикиНациональный исследовательский университет Высшая школа экономикиIn this paper, we consider an approach to reverse engineering of UML sequence diagrams from event logs of information systems with a service-oriented architecture (SOA). UML sequence diagrams are graphical models quite suitable for representing interactions in heterogeneous component systems; in particular, the latter include increasingly popular SOA-based information systems. The approach deals with execution traces of SOA systems, represented in the form of event logs. Event logs are created by almost all modern information systems primarily for debug purposes. In contrast with conventional reverse engineering techniques that require source code for analysis, our approach for inferring UML sequence diagrams deals only with available logs and some heuristic knowledge. Our method consists of several stages of building UML sequence diagrams according to different perspectives set by the analyst. They include mapping log attributes to diagram elements, thereby determining a level of abstraction, grouping several components of a diagram and building hierarchical diagrams. We propose to group some of diagram components (messages and lifelines) based on regular expressions and build hierarchical diagrams using nested fragments. The approach is evaluated in a software prototype implemented as a Microsoft Visio add-in. The add-in builds a UML sequence diagram from a given event log according to a set of customizable settings.https://ispranproceedings.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/111журнал событийдиаграмма последовательности umlавтоматическое выведение моделейизвлечение процессов |
| spellingShingle | K. V. Davydova S. A. Shershakov Mining Hierarchical UML Sequence Diagrams from Event Logs of SOA Systems while Balancing between Abstracted and Detailed Models Труды Института системного программирования РАН журнал событий диаграмма последовательности uml автоматическое выведение моделей извлечение процессов |
| title | Mining Hierarchical UML Sequence Diagrams from Event Logs of SOA Systems while Balancing between Abstracted and Detailed Models |
| title_full | Mining Hierarchical UML Sequence Diagrams from Event Logs of SOA Systems while Balancing between Abstracted and Detailed Models |
| title_fullStr | Mining Hierarchical UML Sequence Diagrams from Event Logs of SOA Systems while Balancing between Abstracted and Detailed Models |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mining Hierarchical UML Sequence Diagrams from Event Logs of SOA Systems while Balancing between Abstracted and Detailed Models |
| title_short | Mining Hierarchical UML Sequence Diagrams from Event Logs of SOA Systems while Balancing between Abstracted and Detailed Models |
| title_sort | mining hierarchical uml sequence diagrams from event logs of soa systems while balancing between abstracted and detailed models |
| topic | журнал событий диаграмма последовательности uml автоматическое выведение моделей извлечение процессов |
| url | https://ispranproceedings.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/111 |
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