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The Unified Modeling Language (UML) favors the construction of models composed of several submodels, modeling the system components under development at different levels of abstraction and from different viewpoints. Currently, consistency of object-oriented models expressed in the UML is not defined in the UML language specification. This allows the construction of inconsistent UML models. Defining consistency of UML models is complicated by the fact that UML models are applied differently, depending on the application domain and development process. As a consequence, a form of consistency management is required that allows the software engineer to define, establish and manage consistency, tailored specifically to the development context. In recent years, we have developed a general methodology and tool support to overcome this problem. The methodology is based on a thorough study of the notion of consistency and has led to a generic definition of the notion of consistency. Our methodology itself aims at a step-wise systematic construction of a consistency management process, by providing a number of activities to be performed by the software engineer. It is complemented by a tool called Consistency Workbench which supports the software engineer in performing the methodology. In this paper, we provide an overview and summary of our approach.
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Küster, J.M., Engels, G. (2004). Consistency Management within Model-Based Object-Oriented Development of Components. In: de Boer, F.S., Bonsangue, M.M., Graf, S., de Roever, WP. (eds) Formal Methods for Components and Objects. FMCO 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3188. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30101-1_7
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