From use cases to system operation specifications

  • Authors:
  • Shane Sendall;Alfred Strohmeier

  • Affiliations:
  • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Department of Computer Science, Software Engineering Laboratory, Lausanne EPFL, Switzerland;Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Department of Computer Science, Software Engineering Laboratory, Lausanne EPFL, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • UML'00 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on The unified modeling language: advancing the standard
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to first showcase the concept of an operation schemá a precise form of system-level operation specification and secondly show how operation schemas enhance development when they are used as a supplement to use case descriptions. An operation schema declaratively describes the effects of a system operation by pre- and postconditions using the Object Constraint Language (OCL), as defined by the Unified Modeling Language (UML). In particular, the paper highlights techniques to map use cases to operation schemas and discusses the advantages of doing so in terms of clarifying the granularity and purpose of use cases and providing a precise specification of system behavior.