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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

A Textual Notation for Modeling and Generating Code for Composite Structure

Authors : Mahmoud Husseini Orabi, Ahmed Husseini Orabi, Timothy C. Lethbridge

Published in: Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Models of the composite structure of a software system describe its components, how they are connected or contain each other, and how they communicate using ports and connectors. Although composite structure is one of the UML diagram types, it tends to be complex to use, or requires particular library support, or suffers from weak code generation, particularly in open source tools. Our previous work has shown that software modelers can benefit from a textual notation for UML concepts as well as from high-quality code generation, both of which we have implemented in Umple. This paper explains our extensions to Umple in order create a simple textual notation and comprehensive code generation for composite structure. A particular feature of our approach is that developers do not always need to explicitly encode protocols as they can be in many cases inferred. We present case studies of the composite structure of several systems designed using Umple, and demonstrate how the volume of code and cyclomatic complexity faced by developers is far lower than if they tried to program such systems directly in C++.

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Metadata
Title
A Textual Notation for Modeling and Generating Code for Composite Structure
Authors
Mahmoud Husseini Orabi
Ahmed Husseini Orabi
Timothy C. Lethbridge
Copyright Year
2019
Book
Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-11029-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-11030-7

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11030-7_16

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