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Several Issues on the Model Interchange Between Model-Driven Software Development Tools

Authors:
Una Ieva Zusane
Oksana Nikiforova
Konstantins Gusarovs

Keywords: model interchange; UML diagrams; model-driven software development tool

Abstract:
Models are widely used and are one of the advanced tools of software engineering. There is a necessity to export software models from one software development tool or environment and to import them into another tool or environment, especially actual this task is within the Model-Driven Software Development. Despite of the popular model description standard XML Metadata Interchange (XMI), which can be used to perform the task of the model interchange, several problems according to information loss still are appearing. The research is devoted to the comparison of the tools’ abilities to exchange the software model presented in the form of Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams with other tools, based on a set of test cases suitable to check the completeness of the model description according to XMI standard. Authors open the discussion about the dependency between tools correspondence to the XMI standard and tool’s ability of model interchange.

Pages: 451 to 456

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: November 15, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-438-1

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from November 15, 2015 to November 20, 2015