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A Dynamic Slicing Technique for UML Architectural Models
November/December 2011 (vol. 37 no. 6)
pp. 737-771
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| Jaiprakash T. Lallchandani, R. Mall, "A Dynamic Slicing Technique for UML Architectural Models," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 37, no. 6, pp. 737-771, November/December, 2011. | |||
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| @article{ 10.1109/TSE.2010.112, author = {Jaiprakash T. Lallchandani and R. Mall}, title = {A Dynamic Slicing Technique for UML Architectural Models}, journal ={IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering}, volume = {37}, number = {6}, issn = {0098-5589}, year = {2011}, pages = {737-771}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TSE.2010.112}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, } | |||
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| TY - JOUR JO - IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering TI - A Dynamic Slicing Technique for UML Architectural Models IS - 6 SN - 0098-5589 SP737 EP771 EPD - 737-771 A1 - Jaiprakash T. Lallchandani, A1 - R. Mall, PY - 2011 KW - Software architecture KW - UML KW - architectural metamodel KW - dynamic slicing KW - impact analysis. VL - 37 JA - IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering ER - | |||
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TSE.2010.112
This paper proposes a technique for dynamic slicing of UML architectural models. The presence of related information in diverse model parts (or fragments) makes dynamic slicing of Unified Modeling Language (UML) models a complex problem. We first extract all relevant information from a UML model specifying a software architecture into an intermediate representation, which we call a Model Dependency Graph (MDG). For a given slicing criterion, our slicing algorithm traverses the constructed MDG to identify the relevant model parts that are directly or indirectly affected during the execution of a specified scenario. One novelty of our approach is computation of dynamic slice based on the structural and behavioral (interactions only) UML models as against independently processing separate UML models, and determining the implicit interdependencies among different model elements distributed across model views. We also briefly discuss a prototype tool named Archlice, which we have developed to implement our algorithm.
Index Terms:
Software architecture, UML, architectural metamodel, dynamic slicing, impact analysis.
Citation:
Jaiprakash T. Lallchandani, R. Mall, "A Dynamic Slicing Technique for UML Architectural Models," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 37, no. 6, pp. 737-771, Nov.-Dec. 2011, doi:10.1109/TSE.2010.112
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