1 A Design Recovery View - JFace vs

This paper presents an experience report on using software engineering and design recovery tools to gain understanding and insight into the design of a software system without being burdened by a large source code repository. It is often the case that software systems contain incomplete or inaccurate documentation, or that the software designers did not follow software engineering best practices entirely during the development process. These tools extract and visually present design information from these software systems, so that one can understand the interconnections of the modules that comprise that system.