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UML has been established as a de facto standard for modeling software. It offers a set of complementary diagram types used to document functional, dynamic and static views of a system. UML diagrams diversification and their multi-view representation can cause inconsistencies among the diagram types used to model the system during the different development phases. This paper presents an automated COSMIC-based approach for checking the consistency between the activity and component diagrams. First, it defines measurement procedures to determine the functional size of both diagrams. Secondly, it proposes a set of heuristics to ensure the consistency in terms of COSMICFSM. Third, it presents a tool for measuring the functional size of these diagrams, and then checking their consistency.
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Sellami, A., Haoues, M., Ben-Abdallah, H. (2013). Automated COSMIC-Based Analysis and Consistency Verification of UML Activity and Component Diagrams. In: Filipe, J., Maciaszek, L.A. (eds) Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering. ENASE 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 417. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54092-9_4
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