Round trip engineering

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Round-trip engineering is a term from the field of software technology and ensures that drafts or models are matched and implemented.

Using the example of UML class diagrams, round-trip engineering includes :

• Forward engineering : Changes to the class diagram lead to an automatic adaptation of the source text
• Reverse engineering : Changes in the source code lead to the automatic adaptation of the class diagrams

Some software development tools ( CASE ) like Together support simultaneous round-trip engineering . H. the update takes place immediately after a change.