IntelliJ IDEA Plug-in for Synthesis of a Behavioral Software Model based on Event Log

When designing a particular software system, one usually attempts to predict user behavior within such a system and implements its functionality based on their predictions. However, when users start interacting with the system it might appear that they tend to perform unexpected actions or actions in odd sequences that were not anticipated by the designers. Such systems lack usability and take longer time for users to perform simple tasks. Creating a process model is a convenient means to depict the behavior of a particular software system in order to improve it by adjusting it to user needs. This paper is to present a plugin to synthesize such models during the development and debugging of software systems before they reach their final version. This plugin targets one of the most popular integrated development environments for Java – IntelliJ IDEA. Its purpose is to help designers understand the behavior of code modules within various packages when developing complex systems so that they can later improve their systems code-wise.