Translating between Alloy specifications and UML class diagrams annotated with OCL

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Autor(a) principal: Cunha, Alcino
Data de Publicação: 2015
Outros Autores: Garis, Ana, Riesco, Daniel
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/33861
Resumo: Model-driven engineering (MDE) is a software engineering approach based on model transformations at different abstraction levels. It prescribes the development of software by successively transforming the models from abstract (specifications) to more concrete ones (code). Alloy is an increasingly popular lightweight formal specification language that supports automatic verification. Unfortunately, its widespread industrial adoption is hampered by the lack of an ecosystem of MDE tools, namely code generators. This paper presents a model transformation from Alloy to UML class diagrams annotated with OCL (UML+OCL) and shows how an existing transformation from UML+OCL to Alloy can be improved to handle dynamic issues. The proposed bidirectional transformation enables a smooth integration of Alloy in the current MDE contexts, by allowing UML+OCL specifications to be transformed to Alloy for validation and verification, to correct and possibly refine them inside Alloy, and to translate them back to UML+OCL for sharing with stakeholders or to reuse current model-driven architecture tools to refine them toward code.
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spelling Translating between Alloy specifications and UML class diagrams annotated with OCLMDEAlloyUMLOCLScience & TechnologyModel-driven engineering (MDE) is a software engineering approach based on model transformations at different abstraction levels. It prescribes the development of software by successively transforming the models from abstract (specifications) to more concrete ones (code). Alloy is an increasingly popular lightweight formal specification language that supports automatic verification. Unfortunately, its widespread industrial adoption is hampered by the lack of an ecosystem of MDE tools, namely code generators. This paper presents a model transformation from Alloy to UML class diagrams annotated with OCL (UML+OCL) and shows how an existing transformation from UML+OCL to Alloy can be improved to handle dynamic issues. The proposed bidirectional transformation enables a smooth integration of Alloy in the current MDE contexts, by allowing UML+OCL specifications to be transformed to Alloy for validation and verification, to correct and possibly refine them inside Alloy, and to translate them back to UML+OCL for sharing with stakeholders or to reuse current model-driven architecture tools to refine them toward code.This work was funded by European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through the COMPETE Programme (operational program for competitiveness) and by national funds through the FCT (Fundaaco para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia-portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) within project FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-020532. Part of the work was done while the first author was visiting the Software Design Group at CSAIL, MIT, USA, funded by FCT sabbatical grant SFRH/BSAB/1187/2011. The second author was also partially supported by QREN (the portuguese National Strategy Reference Chart) project 1621, while visiting the High-Assurance Software Laboratory at Universidade do Minho, Portugal. Finally, we would also like to thank all anonymous reviewers for the valuable comments and suggestions.SpringerSpringerUniversidade do MinhoCunha, AlcinoGaris, AnaRiesco, Daniel20152015-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1822/33861eng1619-136610.1007/s10270-013-0353-5info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-05-11T07:06:58Zoai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/33861Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openairemluisa.alvim@gmail.comopendoar:71602024-05-11T07:06:58Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Translating between Alloy specifications and UML class diagrams annotated with OCL
title Translating between Alloy specifications and UML class diagrams annotated with OCL
spellingShingle Translating between Alloy specifications and UML class diagrams annotated with OCL
Cunha, Alcino
MDE
Alloy
UML
OCL
Science & Technology
title_short Translating between Alloy specifications and UML class diagrams annotated with OCL
title_full Translating between Alloy specifications and UML class diagrams annotated with OCL
title_fullStr Translating between Alloy specifications and UML class diagrams annotated with OCL
title_full_unstemmed Translating between Alloy specifications and UML class diagrams annotated with OCL
title_sort Translating between Alloy specifications and UML class diagrams annotated with OCL
author Cunha, Alcino
author_facet Cunha, Alcino
Garis, Ana
Riesco, Daniel
author_role author
author2 Garis, Ana
Riesco, Daniel
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidade do Minho
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Cunha, Alcino
Garis, Ana
Riesco, Daniel
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv MDE
Alloy
UML
OCL
Science & Technology
topic MDE
Alloy
UML
OCL
Science & Technology
description Model-driven engineering (MDE) is a software engineering approach based on model transformations at different abstraction levels. It prescribes the development of software by successively transforming the models from abstract (specifications) to more concrete ones (code). Alloy is an increasingly popular lightweight formal specification language that supports automatic verification. Unfortunately, its widespread industrial adoption is hampered by the lack of an ecosystem of MDE tools, namely code generators. This paper presents a model transformation from Alloy to UML class diagrams annotated with OCL (UML+OCL) and shows how an existing transformation from UML+OCL to Alloy can be improved to handle dynamic issues. The proposed bidirectional transformation enables a smooth integration of Alloy in the current MDE contexts, by allowing UML+OCL specifications to be transformed to Alloy for validation and verification, to correct and possibly refine them inside Alloy, and to translate them back to UML+OCL for sharing with stakeholders or to reuse current model-driven architecture tools to refine them toward code.
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