Automated Tooling for the Evolving SDL Standard: From Metamodels to UML Profiles

Kraas, Alexander

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“…We investigated the applicability of our approach to derive a UML profile and used the Test Description Language (TDL) [6] to evaluate the applicability of our derivation approach to new DSLs. In contrast, the Specification and Description Language (SDL) [21] was subject of another case study [27,28] to evaluate the applicability of our approach for existing DSLs with available production rules.…”

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“…The concepts of our derivation approach have already been sketched as extended abstract in [28], and its applicability to automatically derive a UML profile for SDL has been demonstrated in another extended abstract [27]. In the present article, we give a fully comprehensive insight into our derivation of UML profiles and our automatic transfer of the OCL-defined static semantics.…”

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On the automation-supported derivation of domain-specific UML profiles considering static semantics

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2021

Softw Syst Model

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In the light of standardization, the model-driven engineering (MDE) is becoming increasingly important for the development of DSLs, in addition to traditional approaches based on grammar formalisms. Metamodels define the abstract syntax and static semantics of a DSL and can be created by using the language concepts of the Meta Object Facility (MOF) or by defining a UML profile.Both metamodels and UML profiles are often provided for standardized DSLs, and the mappings of metamodels to UML profiles are usually specified informally in natural language, which also applies for the static semantics of metamodels and/or UML profiles, which has the disadvantage that ambiguities can occur, and that the static semantics must be manually translated into a machine-processable language.To address these weaknesses, we propose a new automated approach for deriving a UML profile from the metamodel of a DSL. One novelty is that subsetting or redefining metaclass attributes are mapped to stereotype attributes whose values are computed at runtime via automatically created OCL expressions. The automatic transfer of the static semantics of a DSL to a UML profile is a further contribution of our approach. Our DSL Metamodeling and Derivation Toolchain (DSL-MeDeTo) implements all aspects of our proposed approach in Eclipse. This enabled us to successfully apply our approach to the two DSLs Test Description Language (TDL) and Specification and Description Language (SDL).

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On the automation-supported derivation of domain-specific UML profiles considering static semantics

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2021

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“…Relevant to Jorvik is research introducing methodologies for the automatic generation of UML profiles from an Ecorebased metamodel [31]. The work in [32] proposes a partially automated approach for generating UML profiles using a set of specific design patterns.…”

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“…The intermediate metamodel is then compared against the UML metamodel to identify a set of required UML extensions, as well as the transformation of the intermediate metamodel into a corresponding functioning UML profile. Similarly, [31] introduces an approach for the automatic derivation of a UML profile and a corresponding set of OCL expressions for Stereotype attributes using annotated MOF-based metamodels. Another relevant research work is JUMP [4] that supports the automatic generation of profiles from annotated Java libraries [4].…”

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Automatic generation of UML profile graphical editors for Papyrus

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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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On the Automated Derivation of Domain-Specific UML Profiles

Kraas

2017

Modelling Foundations and Applications

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Similar to general-purpose languages, domain-specific languages (DSL) can be developed based on grammar formalisms, the model-driven engineering (MDE) is also becoming more and more important for the development of DSLs. On the one hand, metamodels can be used to define the syntax and semantics of DSLs. On the other hand, a DSL can be realized by adapting the Unified Modeling Language (UML) via the profiling mechanism, i.e., by defining a UML profile. For example, metamodels for a DSL can be created with the language concepts provided by the Meta Object Facility (MOF), distinguishing between the Essential MOF (EMOF) and the Complete MOF (CMOF). The latter variant is based on the EMOF but provides additional language concepts. A higher degree of abstraction and reuse of existing metamodels can be achieved by employing the language concepts provided by CMOF, which can be advantageous for the creation of more complex DSLs. IITo verify and evaluate the presented derivation approach, we have implemented a toolchain that we used to conduct two case studies on the Specification and Description Language (SDL) and the Test Description Language (TDL).IV formationen validiert werden. Neben neu zu entwickelnden DSLs ermöglicht unser Ansatz auch eine Migration bestehender Grammatik-basierter DSLs zu CMOFbasierten Metamodellen, sofern Syntaxregeln existieren.Um den vorgestellten Ableitungsansatz zu überprüfen und zu bewerten, wurde eine Werkzeugkette implementiert, mit der zwei Fallstudien für die Specification and Description Language (SDL) und die Test Description Language (TDL) durchgeführt wurden.

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Automated Tooling for the Evolving SDL Standard: From Metamodels to UML Profiles

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On the automation-supported derivation of domain-specific UML profiles considering static semantics

On the automation-supported derivation of domain-specific UML profiles considering static semantics

Automatic generation of UML profile graphical editors for Papyrus

On the Automated Derivation of Domain-Specific UML Profiles

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