An extensible formal semantics for UML activity diagrams
Abstract
This paper presents an operational semantics for UML activity diagrams. The purpose of this semantics is three-fold: to give a robust basis for verifying model correctness; to help validate model transformations; and to provide a well-formed basis for assessing whether a proposed extension/interpretation of the modeling language is consistent with the standard. The challenges of a general formal framework for UML models include the semi-formality of the semantics specification, the extensibility of the language, and (sometimes deliberate, sometimes accidental) under-specification of model behavior in the standard. Our approach is based on structural operational semantics, which can be extended according to domain-specific needs. The presented semantics has been implemented and tested.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1604.02386,
title = {An extensible formal semantics for UML activity diagrams},
author = {Zamira Daw and Rance Cleaveland},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.02386},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
27 pages, 13 figures