In terms of software engineering, reverse engineering involves reading and understanding lines of source code to understand how the software system works. These components are later used to build a similar system or program that may not have exactly the same structure as the reverse-engineered system. Such documents can be used to analyze a structure and understand how each component of the system works. For example, one type of system abstraction involves analyzing source code to recreate the overall system structure, while another is intended to recover a design document or another document type that describes system operations. Reverse engineering is the process of abstracting the structural and functional information of a particular system or program by investigating system components. Reverse engineering is a well-known process, especially among software developers. This study argues that the proposed extension will enable the visualization of object-oriented Fortran software behavior and algorithmic structure and thereby enhance the development, maintenance practices, decision processes, and communications in scientific and engineering software communities worldwide. Therefore, herein, an extension for ForUML to extract UML sequence diagrams from the Fortran code is proposed, and this capability is provided using a widely used open-source platform. UML sequence diagrams provide this important algorithmic information. However, class diagrams lack the temporal information required to understand class behavior and interactions between classes. Class diagrams provide a useful window into the static structure of a program, including the structure and components of each class and the relationships between classes. The first version of ForUML produces only UML class diagrams. UML diagrams can enhance discussions within development teams and with the broader scientific community. UML diagrams of Fortran software would be beneficial to scientists and engineers in explaining the structure and behavior of their programs at a higher level of abstraction than the source code itself. However, methods for visualizing the existing design of object-oriented Fortran software are lacking. Generally, Fortran is used to implement scientific and engineering software in various domains, such as weather forecasting, astrophysics, and engineering design. This study focuses on ForUML, a reverse engineering tool developed to extract UML diagrams from modern object-oriented Fortran programs. Recently, reverse engineering has become widely recognized as a valuable process for extracting system abstractions and design information from existing software.
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