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Towards Formalised Guidelines for Migrating Structured Designs to UML: A Case Study

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This paper provides evidence that it is possible to migrate structured system designs to UML models. Legacy structured designs can be converted to object-oriented systems without losing data or functionality. The reason for choosing UML is that it is the new standard notation, which tries to build on and integrate object-oriented notations. Extracts from a case study are presented together with the proposed guidelines for the re-engineering process.

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  1. School of Computing Science, Middlesex University, Trent Park, Bramley Road, London, N14 4YZ, UK

    Elli Georgiadou

  2. Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35 (Agora), FIN 40014, Jyväskylä, Finland

    Eleni Berki

  3. Faculty of Science, Higher Technical School of Computer Engineering, Department of Informatics, Valladolid University, Valladolid, Spain

    Maria del Brezo Cordero

  4. Faculty of Systems Engineering, Southampton Institute, East Park Terrace, Southampton, Hampshire, SO14 0YN, UK

    Margaret Ross & Geoff Staples

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Georgiadou, E., Berki, E., del Brezo Cordero, M. et al. Towards Formalised Guidelines for Migrating Structured Designs to UML: A Case Study. Software Qual J 13, 31–69 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11219-004-5260-0

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