UML2Merge: a UML extension for model merging

Farias, Kleinner; Oliveira, Toacy C.; Gonçales, Lucian José; Bischoff, Vinícius

doi:10.1049/iet-sen.2018.5104

Cited by 8 publications

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“…In addition to the above methods, the following is the most recent work on merging class diagrams; they were not included in our comparison. The approach in [38] defines the semantics of the merging relationship between UML packages and the order in which multiple merge relationships are executed. The approach extends the UML meta model, which is a drawback.…”

Section: Comparison With Other Methodsmentioning

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Composition of UML Class Diagrams Using Category Theory and External Constraints

Tazin¹,

Kokar²

2022

JSEA

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In large software development projects, there is always a need for refactoring and optimization of the design. Usually software designs are represented using UML diagrams (e.g., class diagrams). A software engineering team may create multiple versions of class diagrams satisfying some external constraints. In some cases, subdiagrams of the developed diagrams can be selected and combined into one diagram. It is difficult to perform this task manually since the manual process is very time consuming, is prone to human errors, and is not manageable for large projects. In this paper, we present algorithmic support for automating the generation of composing diagrams, where the composed diagram satisfies a given collection of external constraints and is optimal with respect to a given objective function. The composition of diagrams is based on the colimit operation from category theory. The developed approach was verified experimentally by generating random external constraints (expressed in SPARQL and OWL), generating random class diagrams using these external constraints, generating composed diagrams that satisfy these external constraints and computing class diagram metrics for each composed diagram.

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Section: Comparison With Other Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Composition of UML Class Diagrams Using Category Theory and External Constraints

Tazin¹,

Kokar²

2022

JSEA

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“…-Visualization: Limitation on the graphical aspect and the need to visualize the conflict representation. For instance, A51 [122] reports lack of proper support to visualize conflicts in the graphical modeling interfaces. Moreover, A22 [79] specifies the need to represent conflicts, which has paramount importance for usability reasons.…”

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Conflict management techniques for model merging: a systematic mapping review

2022

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Model merging conflicts occur when different stakeholders aim to integrate their contradicting changes that are applied concurrently to update software models. We conduct an extensive systematic mapping study on conflict management techniques and relevant collaboration attributes to the versioning and merging models from 2001 to the middle of 2021. This study follows the standard guidelines within the software engineering domain. We analyzed a total of 105 articles extracted from an initial pool of more than 1800 articles to infer a taxonomy for conflict management techniques. We use this taxonomy to classify existing approaches to understand characteristics, shortcomings, and challenges on conflict management techniques in merging models. It also provides a solid foundation for future work in this area. We show that syntactic conflicts are the most studied type and that the top three popular conflict detection techniques are constraint violation, change overlapping, and pattern matching. We observe the lack of a comprehensive state-of-theart comparison between academic or industrial tools, as well as the need for real-world case studies. Finally, we show that recent trends have focused on online collaboration, where teams of stakeholders work on large-scale models.

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“…They [32] have also presented the multi‐view collaboration method using knowledge‐base and shown a research demonstrator use‐case, still the method works in model level. As many approaches are developed for software engineering like [33], Wolfenstetter et al [34] introduce a software tool called TRAILS (standing for traceability, integration, and life‐cycle management support) which aims to convert existing information from different domain‐specific model into a uniform format by defining the relationship between the metamodels like Link model. Similarly, correspondence and consistency rules can be defined for a set of metamodels of the targets for flexible views in virtual single underlying metamodel (VSUMM) suggested by Kramer et al [35].…”

Section: State Of the Artmentioning

confidence: 99%