A rule-based system for assessing consistency between UML models

  • Authors:
  • Carlos Mario Zapata;Guillermo González;Alexander Gelbukh

  • Affiliations:
  • Escuela de Sistemas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia;Escuela de Sistemas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia;Computing Research Center, National Polytechnic Institute, DF, Mexico

  • Venue:
  • MICAI'07 Proceedings of the artificial intelligence 6th Mexican international conference on Advances in artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The main goal of requirements specification is the transformation of a "rough draft" of stakeholder needs and expectations into a semiformal specification, represented by several diagrams, commonly UML diagrams. These diagrams must be consistent with each other, but consistency among different UML diagrams is not defined by the UML specification, and the research about inter-model consistency is still immature. We propose, in this paper, a rule-based system to detect consistency problems among UML diagrams. In order to complete this task, we have defined a set of rules in OCL, and then we use a novel approach for implementing the system by means of Xquery and Xpath languages. The use of these languages helps the rule-based system to interact with traditional CASE tools.