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A Round-Trip Engineering Method for Activity Diagrams and Source Code

Authors:
Keinosuke Matsumoto
Ryo Uenishi
Naoki Mori

Keywords: model; round-trip engineering; activity diagram; model driven development; UML.

Abstract:
In the field of software development, many implementation methods appear one after another. It is necessary for them to be flexibly introduced into software. Model driven development is regarded as one of the most flexible development methods. It expects to generate source code from the models. However, the models and the source code generated from them will become out of sync if the code is changed. In order to solve this problem, round-trip engineering (RTE) has been proposed. RTE has a feature that keeps the models synchronized with the source code. There are some tools providing us with the RTE, but almost all of them are applicable only for static diagrams. This research adapts the RTE directly to activity diagrams as one of dynamic diagrams, and proposes a method to realize the RTE for activity diagrams and source code. A success transformation rate of the models and source code has been confirmed. As a result, it could be verified that the round-trip engineering between activity diagrams and source code is successful.

Pages: 24 to 29

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: May 24, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3913

ISBN: 978-1-61208-405-3

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from May 24, 2015 to May 29, 2015