Round-trip engineering

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Round-trip engineering is a functionality of software development tools that provides generation of models from source code and generation of source code from models; this way, existing source code can be converted into a model, be subjected to software engineering methods and then be converted back.

Round trip is a particular model perspective in the UML standard, and it covers conceptual elements of the full execution use case that happens in an implemented system. This includes the network communication, in typical web-based applications.

[edit] See also

• Reverse engineering