Reverse software engineering with UML for web site maintenance

In this paper, we show that reverse software engineering ruing the Unified Process and visual models with 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,veb sites are shown in components diagrams. Also, the physical directory structures are shown in the component view of the implementation model. Our empirical results on official university web sites maintenance show that the reverse software engineering and visual models can help web administrators to understand the navigation schemes and physical structures promptly and clearly.