UML 2.0 with VizzAnalyzer

Analyzing software contains two different tasks. First of all we are analyzing the software and try to calculate some metrics for software quality. Then those results have to be presented to the software engineers. VizzAnalyzer is a tool for analysis and visualization of software. It visualization allow not for a standardized diagram representation. Therefore it is difficult for others to understand, and we need to explain the meaning of our non-standard diagram elements. The solution is to use a standardized representation which can be understood by both sides. UML is such a collection of intuitively diagrams with standardized elements. Their meaning is clear to most software engineers. We extended our analysis tool, the VizzAnalyzer, allowing it to view software systems as UML Class diagrams. We reused the existing plug-in architecture to connect our analysis tool with yEd, a graph visualization program. This plug-in is responsible for exchanging the data between the two applications. We solve this conversion defining an UML Class Diagram Model and the mapping function between this model and the Common Meta-Model used by VizzAnalyzer and our Class Diagram Model. After that, we export this Class Diagram Model to a format suitable for yEd to display. Now we can generate Class Diagrams with the VizzAnalyzer tool. This will allow a better communication of the results derived by different analysis with the software engineers. This thesis describes the evolution of different alternatives and the design and implementation of our solution