Model driven reverse engineering of user interface — A comparative study of static and dynamic model generation tools

Abstract

Many legacy applications may be outdated due to obsolete user interface however they still carry the precious business information about the data and processes. Such applications can be modernized by reengineering their user interface. The first step in modernization is the reverse engineering of the user interface. In this paper we compare the techniques to reverse engineer a simple java based application to identify the best possible technique for model generation.