Rule Based Approach for Ensuring Consistency in Different UML Models

Kalibatiene, Diana; Vasilecas, Olegas; Dubauskaite, Ruta

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40855-7_1

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“…Another piece of work [23] showed a rule based method for consistency checking in UML models supported by a software prototype for the MagicDraw UML CASE tool. The authors presented 50 UML consistency rules involving one or more UML diagrams.…”

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UML consistency rules

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Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering

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Context:The Unified Modeling Language (UML), with its 14 different diagram types, is the de-facto standard modeling language for object-oriented modeling and documentation. Since the various UML diagrams describe different aspects of one, and only one, software under development, they are not independent but strongly depend on each other in many ways. In other words, the UML diagrams describing a software product must be consistent. Inconsistencies between these diagrams may be a source of faults in software systems. It is therefore paramount that these inconsistencies be detected, analyzed and hopefully fixed. Objective: The aim of this article is to deliver a comprehensive summary of UML consistency rules as they are described in the literature to date to obtain an extensive and detailed overview of the current research in this area. Method: We performed a Systematic Mapping Study by following well-known guidelines. We selected 95 primary studies from a search with seven search engines performed in December 2012. Results: Different results are worth mentioning. First it appears that researchers tend to discuss very similar consistency rules, over and over again. Most rules are horizontal (98.10%) and syntactic (88.21%). The most used diagrams are the class diagram (71.58%), the sequence diagram (47.37%) and the state machine diagram (42.11%). Conclusion: The fact that many rules are duplicated in primary studies confirms the need for a well-accepted list of consistency rules. This paper is a first step in this direction. Results indicate that much more work is needed to develop consistency rules for all 14 UML diagrams, in all dimensions of consistency (e.g., semantic and syntactic on the one hand, horizontal, vertical and evolution on the other hand).

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UML consistency rules

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“…For each one, the table indicates the period covered by the survey, the main objective, whether the search was driven by clear research questions (RQs) and was systematic, along with the number of reviewed papers and UML consistency rules collected. We first discuss the only review [29] that presented UML consistency rules, and then the other four reviews on UML consistency which we considered important to include. The work of Kalibatiene and colleagues [29] is, to the best of our knowledge, the closest piece of work to our research since the authors searched for, collected and presented UML diagram consistency rules.…”

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“…We first discuss the only review [29] that presented UML consistency rules, and then the other four reviews on UML consistency which we considered important to include. The work of Kalibatiene and colleagues [29] is, to the best of our knowledge, the closest piece of work to our research since the authors searched for, collected and presented UML diagram consistency rules. They obtained 50 rules by reviewing eight articles, which they did not select by following a systematic protocol (Systematic Literature Review (SLR) or SMS): no mention was made of the processes used to obtain the articles or to include/exclude these documents.…”

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Definition and Validation of Consistency rules between UML diagrams

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English: UML diagrams describe different views of one piece of software. These diagrams strongly depend on each other and must therefore be consistent with one another, since inconsistencies between diagrams may be a source of faults during software development activities that rely on these diagrams. It is therefore paramount that consistency rules be defined and that inconsistencies be detected, analyzed and fixed. Even though many researchers have proposed, explicitly or not, rules to detect inconsistencies, no well-accepted, as complete as possible set of

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