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Automated Tooling for the Evolving SDL Standard: From Metamodels to UML Profiles

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Abstract

The past decade has seen much research on a model-based language development of the Specification and Description Language (SDL) and a corresponding Unified Modeling Language (UML) profile. However, as far it is still not possible to derive a UML profile for SDL automatically; instead it has to be created by hand, which is error-prone and time-consuming.

To remedy this limitation, we present a publicly available metamodel for SDL, which was semi-automatically generated based on SDL’s syntax rules. In addition, we automatically derive a UML profile in a novel way so that SDL’s static semantics is automatically transferred from the metamodel.

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Notes

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    Names within quotation marks and written in italic style refer to UML elements or attributes as specified by the UML Superstructure [17].

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    https://eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/.

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    https://eclipse.org/papyrus/.

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    https://eclipse.org/Xtext/.

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We thank Gerald Lüttgen of the Software Technologies Research Group at the University of Bamberg, Germany, for several discussions and comments on the paper’s topic. Furthermore, we also thank the reviewers for their many valuable remarks.

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Kraas, A. (2017). Automated Tooling for the Evolving SDL Standard: From Metamodels to UML Profiles. In: Csöndes, T., Kovács, G., Réthy, G. (eds) SDL 2017: Model-Driven Engineering for Future Internet. SDL 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10567. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68015-6_9

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