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Composition of UML Described Refactoring Rules

2004
Conference Papers

Abstract

Refactorings represent a powerful approach for improving the quality of software systems. A refactoring can be seen as a special kind of behavior preserving model transformation. The Object Constraint Language (OCL) together with the metamodel of Unified Modeling Language (UML) can be used for defining rules for refactoring UML models. This paper investigates descriptions of refactoring rules that can be checked, reused and composed. The main contribution of this paper is an algorithm to compute the description of sequentially composed transformations. This allows one to check if a sequence of transformations is successfully applicable for a given model before the transformations are executed on it. Furthermore, it facilitates the analysis of the effects of transformation chain and its usage in other compositions.

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2004
Conference Papers

Abstract

Official source

https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/2dd80c91-748e-46fe-a372-5ea9407c969d

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Unified Modeling Language

The unified modeling language (UML) is a general-purpose visual modeling language that is intended to provide a standard way to visualize the design of a system. UML provides a standard notation for many types of diagrams which can be roughly divided into 3 main groups: behavior diagrams, interaction diagrams, and structure diagrams. The creation of UML was originally motivated by the desire to standardize the disparate notational systems and approaches to software design.

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An object-modeling language is a standardized set of symbols used to model a software system using an object-oriented framework. The symbols can be either informal or formal ranging from predefined graphical templates to formal object models defined by grammars and specifications. A modeling language is usually associated with a methodology for object-oriented development. The modeling language defines the elements of the model. E.g., that a model has classes, methods, object properties, etc.

Modeling language

A modeling language is any artificial language that can be used to express data, information or knowledge or systems in a structure that is defined by a consistent set of rules. The rules are used for interpretation of the meaning of components in the structure Programing language. A modeling language can be graphical or textual. Graphical modeling languages use a diagram technique with named symbols that represent concepts and lines that connect the symbols and represent relationships and various other graphical notation to represent constraints.

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