Advances in UML and XML-Based Software Evolution

Advances in UML and XML-Based Software Evolution

Copyright: © 2005 |Pages: 374

ISBN13: 9781591406211|ISBN10: 1591406218|EISBN13: 9781591406235|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781591406228

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-621-1

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Advances in UML and XML-Based Software Evolution reports recent advances in applications of two popularly used languages, UML and XML, in the field of software evolution. This book covers topics such as: visualizing legacy systems with UML, augmenting UML to support the design and evolution of user interfaces, migration of persistent object models using XML and much more.

Advances in UML and XML-Based Software Evolution brings many specialists' views into one comprehensive text for all academic researchers and industrial practitioners to learn more about these languages.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapters

Chapter 1

Design Recovery of Web Applications Transactions (pages 1-19)

Scott Tilley, Damiano Distante, Shihong Huang

Modern Web sites provide applications that are increasingly built to support the execution of business processes. In such a transaction-oriented Web site, the user executes a series of activities in order to carry out a specific task...

Chapter 2

Using a Graph Transformation System to Improve the Quality of Characteristics of UML-RT Specifications (pages 20-46)

Lars Gunske

This chapter presents the concept of graph-based architecture evolution and how this concept can be applied to improve the quality characteristics of a software system. For this purpose, the UML-RT used as an architectural...

Chapter 3

Version Control of Software Models (pages 47-70)

Marcus Alanen, Ivan Porres

We review the main concepts and algorithms behind a software repository with version control capabilities for UML and other MOF-based models. We discuss why text- and XML-based repositories cannot be used to manage models and present...

Chapter 4

Support for Collaborative Component-Based Software Engineering (pages 71-91)

Cornelia Boldyreff, David Nutter, Stephen Rank, Phyo Kyaw, Janet Lavery

Collaborative system composition during design has been poorly supported by traditional CASE tools (which have usually concentrated on supporting individual projects) and almost exclusively focused on static composition. Little...

Chapter 5

Migration of Persistent Object Models Using XMI (pages 92-104)

Rainer Fromming, Andreas Rausch

Embrace the change! Change is a constant reality of software development, a reality that must be reflected in not only our software process but also our software production environment. With ever-changing customer requirements...

Chapter 6

PRAISE: A Software Development Environment to Support Software Evolution (pages 105-140)

William C. Chu, Chih-Hung Chang, Chih-Wei Lu, YI-Chun Peng, Don-Lin Yang

Responding to the fact that software systems become more and more complex and mutable, not only the software-standards-related technologies should be adopted, but the environments for software development and evolution should also be...

Chapter 7

Developing Requirements Using Use Case Modeling and the Volere Template: Establishing a Baseline for Evolution (pages 141-153)

Paul Crowther

A major contributor to the development of a quality final product is a complete, consistent, and detailed requirement specification (Pressman, 2000). No matter how good the specification and its translation into an initial system, it...

Chapter 8

Formalizing and Analyzing UML Use Case Hierarchical Predicate Transition Nets (pages 154-183)

Xudong He

Unified Modeling Language (UML), developed by a group of leading experts in object-oriented methodologies, has become the standard object-oriented development methodology in the software industry. UML contains a set of diagrams for...

Chapter 9

Formal Specifications of Software Model Evolution Using Contracts (pages 184-208)

Claudia Pons, Gabriel Baum

During the object-oriented software development process, a variety of models of the system is built. All these models are semantically overlapping and together represent the system as a whole. In this chapter, we present a...

Chapter 10

Visualising COBOL Legacy Systems with UML: An Experimental Report (pages 209-256)

Steve McRobb, Richard Millham, Jianjun Pu, Hongji Yang

This chapter presents a report of an experimental approach that uses WSL as an intermediate language for the visualisation of COBOL legacy systems in UML. Key UML techniques are identified that can be used for visualisation. Many...

Chapter 11

XML-Based Analysis of UML Models for Critical Systems Development (pages 257-274)

Jan Jurjens, Pasha Shabalin

High-quality development of critical systems poses serious challenges. Formal methods have been proposed to address them, but their use in industry is not as widespread as originally hoped. This chapter proposes to use the Unified...

Chapter 12

Augmenting UML to Support the Design and Evolution of User Interfaces (pages 275-285)

Chris Scogings, Chris Phillips

The primary focus in UML has been on support for the design and implementation of the software comprising the underlying system. Very little support is provided for the design or evolution of the user interface. This chapter...

Chapter 13

A Reuse Definition, Assessment, and Analysis Framework for UML (pages 286-307)

Donald Needham, Rodrigo Caballero, Steven Demurjian, Felix Eickhoff, Yi Zhang

This chapter examines a formal framework for reusability assessment of development-time components and classes via metrics, refactoring guidelines, and algorithms. It argues that software engineers seeking to improve design...

Chapter 14

Complexity-Based Evaluation of the Evolution of XML and UML Systems (pages 308-321)

Ana Isabel Cardoso, Peter Kokol, Mitja Lenic, Rui Gustavo Crespo

This chapter analyses current problems in the management of software evolution and argues the need to use the Chaos Theory to model software systems. Several correlation metrics are described, and the authors conclude the Long-Range...

Chapter 15

Variability Expression within the Context of UML: Issues and Comparisons (pages 322-349)

Patrick Tessier, Sébastien Gerard, François Terrier, Jean-Marc Geib

Time-to-market is one of the most severe constraints imposed on today’s software engineers. The increasing complexity of systems has also shortened the time available for designing them. Several solutions have therefore been proposed...

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