Reverse software engineering with UML for Web site maintenance

It is shown that reverse software engineering using the Unified Process (UP) and visual models with the Unified Modeling Language can be applied to Web site maintenance. By reverse engineering the current Web sites, the implementation models of the current Web sites are derived from the Web sites. For the navigation schemes, the Web elements and their dependencies of the current Web sites are shown in component diagrams. Also, the physical directory structures are shown in the component view of the implementation model. Our empirical results on official university Web site maintenance show that the reverse software engineering and visual models can help Web administrators to understand the navigation schemes and physical structures quickly and easily.