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Literal inter-language use case driven modularization

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Michal Bystrický and

Valentino VranićAuthors Info & Claims

MODULARITY Companion 2016: Companion Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Modularity

March 2016

Pages 99 - 103

https://doi.org/10.1145/2892664.2892680

Published: 14 March 2016 Publication History

Abstract

Use cases are a practically proven choice to concisely and precisely express what highly interactive systems do. Several attempts have been made to modularize code according to use cases. None of these approaches is able to gather all the code related to a use case in one module and to reflect its steps. However, to allow for code to be modularized according to use case flows and their steps, an instrumentation environment is necessary. In this paper, literal multi-language use case coding based on defragmentation is proposed. The approach aims at fully preserving use case flows in as comprehensible form as possible. The steps of use case flows appear directly in the code as comments. Despite being comments, the steps are active, which is achieved by a dedicated preprocessor and framework. The detailed step implementation gathers all the code fragments of each step each of which may be in a different programming language.

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Introduction Use Cases as Code Modules Engaging Multiple Languages Processing Use Case Relationships Broader Context Implementation and Evaluation Related Work Conclusions and Further Work

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1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Requirements analysis
  2. Software notations and tools

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MODULARITY Companion 2016: Companion Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Modularity

March 2016

217 pages

ISBN:9781450340335

DOI:10.1145/2892664

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Universidad de Málaga, Spain
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Lang J(2023)Use Case Driven Educational Content EngineeringLearning in the Age of Digital and Green Transition10.1007/978-3-031-26190-9_14(139-150)Online publication date: 23-Feb-2023
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Berta PBystrický MKrempaský MVranić V(2017)Employing issues and commits for in-code sentence based use case identification and remodularizationProceedings of the Fifth European Conference on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems10.1145/3123779.3123792(1-8)Online publication date: 31-Aug-2017
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Bystrický MVranić V(2017)Modularizing Code by Use Cases and Tests for Better MaintainabilityCompanion Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming10.1145/3079368.3079379(1-1)Online publication date: 3-Apr-2017
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