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Model Driven Engineering (MDE) aims to expedite the software development process by providing support for transforming models to running systems. Many modeling tools provide forward engineering features that automatically translate a model into a skeletal program that developers must complete. Inconsistencies between a design model and its implementation can result as a consequence of manually-added code. Manually checking that an implementation conforms to the model is a daunting task. Thus, there is a need for MDE tools that developers can use to check whether an implementation conforms to a model, especially when generated code is manually modified. This paper presents an approach for testing that an implementation satisfies the constraints specified in its design model. We also describe a prototypical tool that supports the approach, and we describe how its application to two Eclipse UML2 projects uncovered errors.
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Chavez, H.M., Shen, W., France, R.B., Mechling, B.A. (2013). An Approach to Testing Java Implementation against Its UML Class Model. In: Moreira, A., Schätz, B., Gray, J., Vallecillo, A., Clarke, P. (eds) Model-Driven Engineering Languages and Systems. MODELS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8107. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41533-3_14
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