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)
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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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Information Technology (IT) Scopus-indexed journals |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Information Technology (FIT) |
| Depositing User: | Duc-Hanh Dang |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Jun 2018 08:53 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Jun 2018 08:53 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uet.vnu.edu.vn/eprints/id/eprint/2974 |
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