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Franck Chauvel and Jean-Marc Jézéquel (2005)
Code Generation from UML Models with Semantic Variation Points
In: Proceedings of MODELS/UML'2005, edited by L. Briand, S. Kent. Springer, Montego Bay, Jamaica, pages –.
UML semantic variation points provide intentional degrees of freedom
for the interpretation of the metamodel semantics. The interest of
semantic variation points is that UML now becomes a family of languages
sharing lot of commonalities and some variabilities that one can
customize for a given application domain. In this paper, we propose
to reify the various semantic variation points of UML 2.0 statecharts
into models of their own to avoid hardcoding the semantic choices
in the tools. We do the same for various implementation choices.
Then, along the line of the OMG's Model Driven Architecture, these
semantic and implementation models are processed along with a source
UML model (that can be seen as a PIM) to provide a target UML model
(a PSM) where all semantic and implementation choice are made explicit.
This target model can in turn serve as a basis for a consistent use
of code generation, simulation, model-checking or test generation
tools.