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Executing and debugging UML models: an fUML extension

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Reda Bendraou, and

Marie-Pierre GervaisAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '13: Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

March 2013

Pages 1095 - 1102

https://doi.org/10.1145/2480362.2480569

Published: 18 March 2013 Publication History

Abstract

With the widespread of the Model-Driven Development (MDD) and surfing on the success of the Unified Modeling Language (UML), software development is shifting from being code-centric to model-centric. Models become the key artefacts in the software development process. The success of the project relies on the quality of these models. Early detection of errors by debugging and testing these models is mandatory in order to reduce development cost, ensuring quality and preventing rework at later stages. The fUML standard defines the precise semantics for executing a subset of UML models by defining a virtual machine. The models are then directly executed without transformation. However, the virtual machine is defined to execute the model as an atomic action and does not fulfil the requirements for debugging it. We highlight in this paper the limit of the current specification of fUML (v1.0) and propose an approach for extending the virtual machine with the key functionality that enables debugging of fUML models. A working UML debugger prototype has been implemented and the use and evaluation of the approach are made on a case study.

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Index Terms

Executing and debugging UML models: an fUML extension
1. Information systems
  1. Data management systems
    1. Middleware for databases
      1. Distributed transaction monitors
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software verification and validation
      1. Software defect analysis
        Software testing and debugging
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Contextual software domains
      1. Operating systems
        Process management
        Monitors

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DOI:10.1145/2480362

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