Reverse engineer FSM

I don't think such tools exist. The tool would really depend upon your FSM implementation.

I would recommend adding trace messages in the code to print out the state transitions and the triggering events. Running the system and collecting the trace would give valuable insight into the FSM design.

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Unusual question. Do you not have the source code anymore ? If not, why not ?

Or is this some post-document exercise ?

-jg

There are some tools for synthesizing state machines from message traces (scenarios). See, for example:

Koskimies, K. and Mäkinen, E. 1994. Automatic synthesis of state machines from trace diagrams. Softw. Pract. Exper. 24, 7 (Jul.

The tool is called SCED, see

I have no personal experience with SCED, and it may not be suitable for the OP, as the OP does not say in which form the FSMs are now. I don't think SCED has any facility for reverse engineering C code, so one would first have to extract message/transition traces, as EventHelix suggests, and then enter them as scenarios into SCED, before SCED could generate the state machines.

Yes, this is a reverse engineering exercise. We have the FSM source code, and would like to generate the State Transition Diagrams. It seems that there is not code/scripts easily available to do this.

Thanks for the reply, Paul

I have a reasonably interesting FSM that I designed and maintain for a product using a large array of record structures. For documentation and reviews, I wrote some code that traversed the FSM and generated output suitable for dot

Pete

For the future, people might be interested in SMC (State Machine Compiler). It produces State-pattern code from the SM description, and is very useful. It is available at sourceforge.net.