Design Phase Consistency: A Tool for Reverse Engineering of UML Activity Diagrams to Their Original Scenarios in the Specification Phase

Pancham, Jay; Millham, Richard

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“…The author formally defined the impact analysis rules by OCL constraints on an adaptation of the UML meta-model. Jay panchan et al, (Pancham & Millham, 2015)proposed a tool that ensures the consistency from specification to the design phase. They presented an algorithm that used a set of action and action link rules to specify the activity and scenario diagrams.…”

Section: State-of-the-art Consistency Detection and Management Technimentioning

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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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Section: State-of-the-art Consistency Detection and Management Technimentioning

confidence: 99%

UML models consistency management: Guidelines for software quality manager

Bashir

Lee

Khan

et al. 2016

International Journal of Information Management

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Affordable Access to Internet and ICT

Pancham

Millham

Affordability Issues Surrounding the Use of ICT for Development and Poverty Reduction

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Telecentres were conceived and designed in order to provide internet access to designated disadvantaged groups that could not otherwise afford this access. In this chapter, the concept of telecentres, with its goal of affordable internet access for the community, is introduced. A few of the common challenges faced by telecentres and their evolving business models are discussed. The problem of monitoring, with its related aspect of affordability is discussed. In order to provide uniform data on usage and user profiles, a common set of data attributes for telecentre operational monitoring is obtained through a literature review of telecentre data collection projects and through interviews with local telecentre managers. Traditional monitoring methods for telecentres, such as through questionnaires, are evaluated as to the timeliness of their data and their associated cost which impact telecentre affordability. The common set of attributes form the basis of an electronic monitoring system with its advantages of continuous data collection and lower costs.

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Determining and developing appropriate methods for requirements verification and modelling of telecentre operational monitoring in a developing country

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Telecentres are a means of allowing members of disadvantaged communities access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) so that they are included in the digital world. Thorough literature searches, along with communication with the Uni-versal Service Access Agency of South Africa (USAASA) indicated that there was no common operational monitoring model for Telecentres. The lack of such a model re-sulted in a lack of real time user and usage profile information to provide strategic business insights for managers. To obtain the requirements for this model, different stakeholders of South African Telecentres were consulted, and these consultations were supplemented by research studies based on international Telecentres. After a detailed evaluation of the different research methodologies, positivism and re-ductionism were selected as the most appropriate conceptual frameworks for the re-search. The research design included both quantitative and qualitative research meth-ods. Requirements engineering was used to provide a number of different methods for verification and modelling. The UML methodology was used to represent the TeleMun monitoring model. A specific UML diagram, the activity diagram, was used to validate the phase consistency of the TeleMun model using the semiformal tool of VeriScene. The choice of methods depended on several factors, for example, the problem domain, and the nature of the solution required, amongst others. Design science methodology was selected as an overarching methodology to encompass the full process from re-quirements to the final design and reporting phases. This methodology was used both in the design of the model and in the design of VeriScene. (The literature review had revealed that there was a gap concerning appropriate phase consistency tools to ensure consistency between the requirements and design phases. To address this gap, a tool ‘VeriScene’ was developed to provide this consistency). In order to analyse these re-quirements, a combination of different appropriate methods was selected, providing the design strength associated with triangulation. These requirements engineering methods were applied to derive the TeleMun model. Thus the monitoring model, TeleMun, was developed, verified and partially validated using several requirements engineering methods. The model is designed at a high level and therefore can be modified to suit other local and international Telecentre opera-tions.

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Design Phase Consistency: A Tool for Reverse Engineering of UML Activity Diagrams to Their Original Scenarios in the Specification Phase

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References 13 publications

UML models consistency management: Guidelines for software quality manager

UML models consistency management: Guidelines for software quality manager

Affordable Access to Internet and ICT

Determining and developing appropriate methods for requirements verification and modelling of telecentre operational monitoring in a developing country

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