From UML Communication Diagrams to Aspect-Oriented Communication Diagrams Using Graph Transformation

Abstract

UML is a standard modeling language that provides several concepts which are used for different levels of design. The communication diagram is one of UML diagrams used to represent interactions between objects. But it remains an object-oriented model who owns several limits namely the duplication, the difficult resolution and reuse of models. The Aspect Oriented Modeling has shown its usefulness in the design and development of complex systems. There are several studies on the aspects composition. We propose in this paper, an approach for composition aspects. This method is inspired by the approach MATA, graph transformation to automatically integrate aspects models and Object Oriented Communication diagrams and get Aspect Oriented Communication diagrams. To achieve this transformation automatically, we propose two meta-models and from these latter’s, we propose a graph grammar. In order to validate our model transformation, we use the meta-modeling tool AToM3. A case study is presented to illustrate our approach.