Towards Automatic Generation of UML Profile Graphical Editors for Papyrus

UML profiles offer an intuitive way for developers to build domain-specific modelling languages by reusing and extending UML concepts. Eclipse Papyrus is a powerful open-source UML modelling tool which supports UML profiling. However, with power comes complexity, implementing non-trivial UML profiles and their supporting editors in Papyrus typically requires the developers to handcraft and maintain a number of interconnected models through a loosely guided, labour-intensive and error-prone process. We demonstrate how metamodel annotations and model transformation techniques can help manage the complexity of Papyrus in the creation of UML profiles and their supporting editors. We present Jorvik, an open-source tool that implements the proposed approach. We illustrate its functionality with examples, and we evaluate our approach by comparing it against manual UML profile specification and editor implementation using a non-trivial enterprise modelling language (Archimate) as a case study. We also perform a user study in which developers are asked to produce identical editors using both Papyrus and Jorvik demonstrating the substantial productivity and maintainability benefits that Jorvik delivers.

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“…In our previous work [49], we compared our approach with Archimate for Papyrus. However, as we mentioned in Sect.…”

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“…This paper extends the prototype approach for automated generation of UML profile graphical editors for Papyrus from our conference paper [49] in the following ways:…”

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Automatic generation of UML profile graphical editors for Papyrus

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“…In [28] MDE is applied to transform model query languages to MySQL queries to reduce the efort and error rates in manually creating MySQL queries. In [51], MDE is applied to automatically generate fully functional graphical editors for UML proiles. In [5], MDE is applied to transform natural languages to database query languages to form complex query using simple natural language grammars.…”

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“…This reduces the amount of time required to develop a system and thus improves the productivity of software engineers, by at least a factor of 10 in many cases [23,25]. Adopting MDE also reduces the number of errors throughout the development process and improves consistency [51]. In addition, MDE can be applied to any domain to achieve automation, due to the concept of domain-speciic modelling and the interoperability provided by model management operations, which can be executed in an automated manner.…”

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From Java to real-time Java: a model-driven methodology with automated toolchain (invited paper)

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Zhao

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Proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems

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Real-time systems are receiving increasing attention with the emerging application scenarios that are safety-critical, complex in functionality, high on timing-related performance requirements, and cost-sensitive, such as autonomous vehicles. Development of real-time systems is error-prone and highly dependent on the sophisticated domain expertise, making it a costly process. There is a trend of the existing software without the real-time notion being re-developed to realise real-time features, e.g., in the big data technology. This paper utilises the principles of model-driven engineering (MDE) and proposes the irst methodology that automatically converts standard time-sharing Java applications to real-time Java applications. It opens up a new research direction on development automation of real-time programming languages and inspires many research questions that can be jointly investigated by the embedded systems, programming languages as well as MDE communities.CCS Concepts · Computer systems organization → Real-time systems; · Software and its engineering → Software notations and tools.

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“…This reduces the amount of time required to develop a system and thus improves the productivity of software engineers, by at least a factor of 10 in many cases [26,28]. Adopting MDE also reduces the number of errors throughout the development process and improves consistency [63]. In addition, MDE can be applied to any domain to achieve automation, due to the concept of domain-speciic modelling and the interoperability provided by the model management operations, which can be executed in an automated manner.…”

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confidence: 99%

Development Automation of Real-Time Java

Chang

Wei

Zhao

et al. 2020

ACM Trans. Embed. Comput. Syst.

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Many applications in emerging scenarios, such as autonomous vehicles, intelligent robots, and industrial automation, are safety-critical with strict timing requirements. However, the development of real-time systems is error-prone and highly dependent on sophisticated domain expertise, making it a costly process. This paper utilises the principles of model-driven engineering (MDE) and proposes two methodologies to automate the development of real-time Java applications. The irst one automatically converts standard time-sharing Java applications to real-time Java applications, using a series of transformations. It is in line with the observed industrial trend, such as for the big data technology, of redeveloping existing software without the real-time notion to realise the real-time features. The second one allows users to automatically generate real-time Java application templates with a lightweight modelling language, which can be used to deine the real-time properties Ð essentially a synthesis process. This paper opens up a new research direction on development automation of real-time programming languages and inspires many research questions that can be jointly investigated by the embedded systems, programming languages as well as MDE communities. CCS Concepts: • Computer systems organization → Real-time systems; • Software and its engineering → Software notations and tools.

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Towards Automatic Generation of UML Profile Graphical Editors for Papyrus

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Automatic generation of UML profile graphical editors for Papyrus

Automatic generation of UML profile graphical editors for Papyrus

From Java to real-time Java: a model-driven methodology with automated toolchain (invited paper)

Development Automation of Real-Time Java

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