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An architectural description records and presents different system characteristics through various architectural views. UML, which provides a set of general-purpose modeling notations, has been already used to model software architecture in industry. In practice, most of the existing architectural descriptions are informal documents. By only using these informal architecture documents it is difficult to analyze the architecture design and convey rigorous architectural concepts and principles to the development team. In this paper, we demonstrate our approach to convert those informal documents to formal UML-conformed documents to facilitate architecture analysis and verification.
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Yang, Y., Xu, J. (2003). Encoding Informal Architectural Descriptions with UML: An Experience Report. In: Stevens, P., Whittle, J., Booch, G. (eds) «UML» 2003 - The Unified Modeling Language. Modeling Languages and Applications. UML 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2863. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45221-8_13
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