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...s in this section we discuss previous research work in the area of abstracting reverse engineered class diagrams and the approaches used in relation to our own. Dragan[16] worked on the classification of classes into Boundary, Control and Entity. His classification was based on the prominence of certain method stereotypes in the classes, which tell their main role in the system. Validation of their approach was carried out on 5 open source projects. 95% of the classes in the system were stereotyped by the approach and developers via manual inspection agreed with the results. Aditya Budi et al [17] also worked on a similar classification but focused on the identification so that they could give feedback on design flaws that may exist in the system. Evaluation of their approach was done by analysing programs written by novices and expert developer to show robustness of their approach. Another researcher, [18] worked on the classification of classes into roles such as: Service Provider, Controller, Coordinator, Interface etc. but also used lexical analysis of class names and other cues in the code as the basis for the classification. Zaidman et al. [19] worked on 2See: www.sdml.info for t...