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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2020.24.7.857

A Method of Automatic Code Generation for UML Sequence Diagrams Based on Message Patterns  

Kim, Yun-Ho (Department of Computer Engineering, Andong National University)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.24, no.7, 2020 , pp. 857-865 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper presents a method for code generation of UML sequence diagrams based on message patterns. In the sequence diagrams, it is shown that messages are some types of forms typically. This paper classifies according to type as three patterns, and construct meta-information for code generation analysing structural infomation for each patterns. The meta-message of structural information (MetaMessage) is stored in the MetaMessage datastore and the meta-method information from the MetaMessage is stored in the MetaMethod datastore. And then, the structural information of MetaClass and MetaObject is constructed in each datastore too. For each pattern, this paper presents a method for code generation based on the meta information of message patterns and the syntax of target progamming language. Also, branching and looping that has been seldom handled integratedly in the previous works are handled as same as the basic patterns by classifying the branching pattern and the looping pattern for code generation integratedly.
Keywords
UML; Sequence diagram; Automatic code generation; Object-oriented design; Object-oriented S/W system;
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