%0 Conference Paper %1 shen_05_using %A Shen, Wuwei %A Low, Weng L. %B Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, 2005. ICECCS 2005. Proceedings. 10th IEEE International Conference on %D 2005 %J Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, 2005. ICECCS 2005. Proceedings. 10th IEEE International Conference on %K metamodel refinement 2005 _marcia %P 421--430 %R 10.1109/ICECCS.2005.81 %T Using the metamodel mechanism to support class refinement %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICECCS.2005.81 %X With modern software development being a complicated process, refinement has become an inevitable step in software development. To date, however, supporting a refinement process during software development has not received much attention in the research community. In this paper we present a tool which can support class diagram refinement based on a set of proposed rules, each of which is represented by a class diagram together with an object constraint language (OCL) constraint. By applying our existing tool supporting the metadata architecture, a new tool helping software developers find some discrepancies between two class diagrams during software refinement can be generated. A Web-based online learning system is illustrated in this paper to show how the tool can be applied to find discrepancies between the two models at two different levels.

@inproceedings{shen_05_using, abstract = {With modern software development being a complicated process, refinement has become an inevitable step in software development. To date, however, supporting a refinement process during software development has not received much attention in the research community. In this paper we present a tool which can support class diagram refinement based on a set of proposed rules, each of which is represented by a class diagram together with an object constraint language (OCL) constraint. By applying our existing tool supporting the metadata architecture, a new tool helping software developers find some discrepancies between two class diagrams during software refinement can be generated. A Web-based online learning system is illustrated in this paper to show how the tool can be applied to find discrepancies between the two models at two different levels.}, added-at = {2009-02-11T21:04:01.000+0100}, author = {Shen, Wuwei and Low, Weng L.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2565cac195abb9afacf39cf72726d622a/leonardo}, booktitle = {Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, 2005. ICECCS 2005. Proceedings. 10th IEEE International Conference on}, citeulike-article-id = {2168433}, doi = {10.1109/ICECCS.2005.81}, interhash = {fee06fccaed534d3ec4a8e1f060a6480}, intrahash = {565cac195abb9afacf39cf72726d622a}, journal = {Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, 2005. ICECCS 2005. Proceedings. 10th IEEE International Conference on}, keywords = {metamodel refinement 2005 _marcia}, pages = {421--430}, posted-at = {2007-12-25 23:48:27}, priority = {4}, timestamp = {2009-02-11T21:04:01.000+0100}, title = {Using the metamodel mechanism to support class refinement}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICECCS.2005.81}, year = 2005 }