These tools offer the facility for standalone examination of one or more XMI files, comparison between outputs for benchmarking or measurement, the use of XMI within Eclipse to generate UML projections in UMLet, and use of reverse engineering output in combination with other sources of relationship information. To aid the comparison, analysis and further use of reverse engineering XMI output we have developed a parser which can interpret the XMI output format of the most commonly used reverse engineering applications, and is used in a number of tools. In addition, this severely hinders the systematic usage of reverse engineering tool output, for example in a benchmark or for use in other analysis. Theoretically this should ensure tool interoperabil-ity but in practice the implementation of the XMI standard varies widely to the point where outputs cannot be exchanged between tools. Most reverse engineering tools can provide their output in the Extensible Metadata Information (XMI) format. When used to evaluate 12 industry standard tools performance figures range from 8.82% to 100% demonstrating the ability of the benchmark to differentiate between tools. To facilitate such comparison we introduce the Reverse Engineering to Design Benchmark (RED-BM), which consists of a comprehensive set of Java-based targets for reverse engineering and a formal set of performance measures with which tools and approaches can be analysed and ranked. Each has specific strengths and weaknesses, however no stan-dardised benchmark exists that can be used to evaluate and compare their performance and effectiveness in a systematic manner.
Various tools exist to reverse engineer software source code and generate design information, such as UML projections.
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