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Aspect‐enhanced goal‐driven sequence diagram
Author(s) -
Lee Jonathan,
Wu ChiaLing,
Lee WenTin,
Hsu KuoHsun
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
international journal of intelligent systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.291
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1098-111X
pISSN - 0884-8173
DOI - 10.1002/int.20428
Subject(s) - sequence diagram , computer science , unified modeling language , weaving , programming language , class diagram , applications of uml , uml tool , semantics (computer science) , software development , software engineering , notation , activity diagram , software development process , state diagram , software , finite state machine , engineering , linguistics , mechanical engineering , philosophy
Recently, aspect‐oriented approaches have resulted in a tremendous impact on the processing of broadly scoped properties during the development of software systems. However, the weaving mechanism of these crosscutting concerns cannot be easily represented with the extant unified modeling language (UML) notation at the early stage of software development life cycle. As an attempt toward the investigation of how the crosscutting behavior takes place, we proposed, in this work, an aspect‐enhanced goal‐driven approach to modeling the aspectual behavior in UML state transition diagrams and sequence diagrams with the proposed interaction operators based on the aspectual weaving semantics. By introducing the proposed interaction operations in the UML combined fragment, UML sequence diagrams can be further enhanced to support the modeling of the interactions between aspectual and base behavior in the analysis and design stage of software development. To further exemplify our points, the meeting scheduler system is chosen as a vehicle to illustrate the proposed approach. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.