Required behavior of sequence diagrams

Author:

Lu Lunjin1,Kim Dae-Kyoo1

Affiliation:

1. Oakland University

Abstract

Many reusable software artifacts such as design patterns and design aspects make use of UML sequence diagrams to describe interaction behaviors. When a pattern or an aspect is reused in an application, it is important to ensure that the sequence diagrams for the application conform to the corresponding sequence diagrams for the pattern or aspect. Reasoning about conformance relationship between sequence diagrams has not been addressed adequately in literature. In this article, we focus on required behaviors specified by a UML sequence diagram and provide a semantic-based formalization of conformance relationships between sequence diagrams. A novel trace semantics is first given that captures precisely required behaviors. A refinement relation between sequence diagrams is then defined based on the semantics. The refinement relation allows a sequence diagram to be refined by changing its structure so long as its required behaviors are preserved. A conformance relation between sequence diagrams is finally given that includes the refinement relation as a special case. It allows one to introduce and rename lifelines, messages, and system variables when reusing sequence diagrams. Properties of the semantics, refinement, and conformance relations are studied. Two case studies are provided to illustrate the efficacy of semantic-based conformance reasoning.

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Subject

Software

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