A systematic review on the definition of UML profiles

  • Authors:

  • Jesús Pardillo

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Alicante, DLSI, Lucentia, Spain

  • Venue:
  • MODELS'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Model driven engineering languages and systems: Part I
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This article reports a systematic review on the definition of UML profiles in the research literature. Several exploratory statistical analyses have been performed in order to characterise both the idiosyncrasy of UML profiles and how they are reported in the literature. This study uncovers the differences between presentation styles for behavioural and structural domains, and shows how UML profiles based on Class, Association, and Property structural metaclasses clearly outnumber any other kind. Also, this review reveals how half of the examined UML profiles merely extend the abstract syntax, without adding neither icons nor constraints. The main contribution of this study is therefore a clear picture of the state-of-the-art in UML profiling, together with a set of open questions regarding its future.