A UML Meta-model for Contract Aware Components

  • Authors:
  • Torben Weis;Christian Becker;Kurt Geihs;Noël Plouzeau

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • «UML» '01 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on The Unified Modeling Language, Modeling Languages, Concepts, and Tools
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We present an extension to the UML meta-model which allows modelling of contract aware components. Contracts are a novel way of describing the functional and non-functional behaviour of components. The usage of contracts in component diagrams allows tools to check whether all requirements for a successful assembly and deployment of the components are fulfilled. Furthermore, we investigate how components can be used in the different development phases and how design phase transitions can be managed.