eprintid: 2974
rev_number: 6
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datestamp: 2018-06-08 08:53:18
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type: article
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creators_name: Chu, Minh Hue
creators_name: Dang, Duc Hanh
creators_name: Nguyen, Ngoc Binh
creators_name: Le, Minh Duc
creators_id: hanhdd@vnu.edu.vn
creators_id: nnbinh@vnu.edu.vn
title: USL: A Domain-Specific Language for Precise Specification of Use Cases and Its Transformations
ispublished: inpress
subjects: IT
subjects: Scopus
divisions: fac_fit
abstract: A use case model is often represented by a UML use case diagram and loosely structured textual descriptions. The use case model expressed in such a form contains ambiguous and imprecise parts. This prevents integrating it into model-driven approaches, where use case models are often taken as the source of transformations. In this paper, we introduce a domain-specific language named the Use case Specification Language (USL) to precisely specify use cases. We define the abstract syntax of USL using a metamodel together with OCL wellformedness rules and then provide a graphical concrete syntax for the usability goal. We also define a precise semantics for USL by mapping USL models to Labelled Transition Systems (LTSs). It opens a possibility to transform USL models to software artifacts such as test cases and design models. We focus on a transformation from a USL model to a template-based use case description in order to illustrate our method. A language evaluation of USL is also performed in this paper.
date: 2018
date_type: published
publisher: Slovensko Drustvo Informatika
official_url: http://www.informatica.si/index.php/informatica/index
full_text_status: none
publication: Informatica - Journal of Computing and Informatics
refereed: FALSE
issn: 0350-5596
citation:   Chu, Minh Hue and Dang, Duc Hanh and Nguyen, Ngoc Binh and Le, Minh Duc  (2018) USL: A Domain-Specific Language for Precise Specification of Use Cases and Its Transformations.  Informatica - Journal of Computing and Informatics .    ISSN 0350-5596    (In Press)