Using the metamodel mechanism to support class refinement

With modern software development being a complicated process, refinement has become an inevitable step in software development. To date, however, supporting a refinement process during software development has not received much attention in the research community. In this paper we present a tool whi...

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Published in10th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS'05) pp. 421 - 430
Main Authors Wuwei Shen, Weng Liong Low
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 2005
Subjects
Computer architecture
Computer crashes
Computer science
Control systems
Learning systems
Object oriented modeling
Programming
Software maintenance
Software systems
Software tools
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Summary:With modern software development being a complicated process, refinement has become an inevitable step in software development. To date, however, supporting a refinement process during software development has not received much attention in the research community. In this paper we present a tool which can support class diagram refinement based on a set of proposed rules, each of which is represented by a class diagram together with an object constraint language (OCL) constraint. By applying our existing tool supporting the metadata architecture, a new tool helping software developers find some discrepancies between two class diagrams during software refinement can be generated. A Web-based online learning system is illustrated in this paper to show how the tool can be applied to find discrepancies between the two models at two different levels.
ISBN:076952284X
9780769522845
DOI:10.1109/ICECCS.2005.81