Towards the Integration of UML- and textual Use Case Modeling.

Hoffmann, Veit; Lichter, Horst; Nyßen, Alexander

doi:10.5381/jot.2009.8.3.a2

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“…Hoffman et al [24] were the first to discuss generalization within use case flow. They introduced the concepts called general narrative description and specialized narrative description to differentiate between original use case flow and inherited use case flow.…”

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Extending the UML use case metamodel with behavioral information to facilitate model analysis and interchange

Misbhauddin

Alshayeb

2013

Softw Syst Model

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Use case diagrams are primary artifacts used for modeling functional requirements. Use case diagrams are part of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) suite of models that has become a de facto standard for modeling object oriented languages. Each model in this suite is described by a metamodel that dictates its syntax and semantics. The use case diagram is considered the most controversial diagram in UML. Practitioners claim that the use case diagram cannot be used as a valuable artifact for requirement analysis. The main reason behind this concern is the lack of behavioral description of a use case depicted within the model. Quite a few extensions to the use case metamodel have been proposed in literature to incorporate behavioral aspect of a use case within the metamodel. All these extensions omit a few important features like generalization and most of them can only be used for model representation and cannot be used for model analysis and evaluation. In this paper, we propose an extension to the UML use case metamodel with use case behavior specification elements. The main objective of the proposed extension is to provide a complete metamodel for use case diagrams which includes representation for all its elements and relationships in a conflict-free manner and one that includes information for model analysis, evaluation, and interchange among modeling tools. In order to include all valuable information related to a use case, a number of use Communicated by Dr. case representation templates were considered for the proposed extension. Simultaneously, to enable the use case models generated based on the proposed metamodel to be used for analysis, pertinent information related to model usage in analysis such as effort estimation, use case scheduling, and use case metrics evaluation were considered from published studies, tools, and paradigms and included within the proposed metamodel.

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“…Extensions proposed by [23][24][25][26] explicitly modeled flows as a set of steps within a use case description. Although these works modeled use case flow, the lowest level of abstraction in their work is a use case step of which a flow is composed of.…”

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Extending the UML use case metamodel with behavioral information to facilitate model analysis and interchange

Misbhauddin

Alshayeb

2013

Softw Syst Model

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“…In the literature, we found the meta models of Somé [20] and Hoffmann et al [11] to be the most elaborated. This is why we spend more time detailing their proposal than the others.…”

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“…Jacobson even says that the parent use-cases only exist to be reused [14]. Figure 6 presents a conceptual view of the execution of a specialized usecase, inspired from [11]. In this example, the execution starts in the flow of the child use-case, then goes to the parent flow (flow inheritance) then back to the child's and finally ends with the parent flow.…”

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Use-case and scenario metamodeling for automated processing in a reverse engineering tool

Repond¹,

Dugerdil²,

Descombes³

2011

Proceedings of the 4th India Software Engineering Conference

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The reverse engineering methodology we developed is based on the reverse specification of the use-cases linked to the execution trace of the legacy system. Basically we aim at recovering the traceability links between the robustness model that represents the analysis of the use-case and its actual implementation classes. Therefore we need to be able to edit the use-cases and the scenarios of the system so that the environment could process this information together with the robustness model and the execution trace to recover the traceability links. We then developed a usecase and scenario editor that is coupled to a robustness model editor. In this paper, we present the UML meta-model extensions we made to formalize the use case and scenario models. Then we present the techniques we developed to assure the coherence between both models. Next we present the way we link the usecase and scenarios to the robustness model and present the Eclipse-based tool we developed. The key contributions of the paper are the definition of the use-cases and scenarios metamodels, the link between the specification and analysis meta models and the mechanisms we developed to assure their mutual coherence. Finally, we present the way these models can be edited and processed in the context of a real tool.

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“…(Larson & Chang, 2016)Highlights the future trends of model-based agile development for business. Alanazi (Alanazi, 2008) Hoffmann et al (Hoffmann et al, 2009) used the case model for consistency validation. The authors discussed a complete meta-model for textual use case descriptions from which the narrative meta-model is perceived.…”

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UML models consistency management: Guidelines for software quality manager

Bashir

Lee

Khan

et al. 2016

International Journal of Information Management

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Abstract-Unified Modeling Language (UML) has become the de-facto standard to design today's large-size object-oriented systems. However, focusing on multiple UML diagrams is a main cause of breaching the consistency problem, which ultimately reduces the overall software model's quality. Consistency management techniques are widely used to ensure the model consistency by correct model-to-model and model-to-code transformation. Consistency management becomes a promising area of research especially for model-driven architecture. In this paper, we extensively review UML consistency management techniques. The proposed techniques have been classified based on the parameters identified from the research literature. Moreover, we performed a qualitative comparison of consistency management techniques in order to identify current research trends, challenges and research gaps in this field of study. Based on the results, we concluded that researchers have not provided more attention on exploring inter-model and semantic consistency problems. Furthermore, state-of-the-art consistency management techniques mostly focus only on three UML diagrams (i.e., class, sequence and state chart) and the remaining UML diagrams have been overlooked. Consequently, due to this incomplete body of knowledge, researchers are unable to take full advantage of overlooked UML diagrams, which may be otherwise useful to handle the consistency management challenge in an efficient manner.

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Towards the Integration of UML- and textual Use Case Modeling.

Cited by 23 publications

References 15 publications

Extending the UML use case metamodel with behavioral information to facilitate model analysis and interchange

Extending the UML use case metamodel with behavioral information to facilitate model analysis and interchange

Use-case and scenario metamodeling for automated processing in a reverse engineering tool

UML models consistency management: Guidelines for software quality manager

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