An automated approach to transform use cases into activity diagrams

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6138 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 337-353

  Yue, Tao ^a,b   Briand, Lionel C ^b   Labiche, Yvan ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Activity Diagram; Automation; Natural Language Processing; Traceability; Transformation; UML; Use Case; Use Case Modeling

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY DIAGRAM; AUTOMATED APPROACH; AUTOMATED SUPPORT; AUTOMATED TEST CASE GENERATION; AUTOMATED TRANSFORMATIONS; COMMERCIAL TOOLS; DATA-FLOW INFORMATION; DESIGN DECISIONS; HIGH QUALITY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; TEST CASE; TRACEABILITY LINKS; UML ACTIVITY DIAGRAMS; UML USE CASE; USE CASE MODELING;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; GRAPHIC METHODS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 77954654398     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13595-8_26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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