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Towards Automatic Generation of UML Profile Graphical Editors for Papyrus

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We present an approach for defining the abstract and concrete syntax of UML profiles and their equivalent Papyrus graphical editors using annotated Ecore metamodels, driven by automated model-to-model and model-to-text transformations. We compare our approach against manual UML profile specification and implementation using Archimate, a non-trivial enterprise modelling language, and we demonstrate the substantial productivity and maintainability benefits it delivers.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The code and instructions are available at http://www.zolotas.net/AMIGO.

  2. 2.

    The attributes of the stereotypes are omitted for simplicity.

  3. 3.

    https://github.com/Adocus/ArchiMate-for-Papyrus.

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Acknowledgments

This work was partially supported by Innovate UK and the UK aerospace industry through the SECT-AIR project, by the EU through the DEIS project (#732242) and by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory through the project “Technical Obsolescence Management Strategies for Safety-Related Software for Airborne Systems”.

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    Athanasios Zolotas, Ran Wei, Simos Gerasimou, Horacio Hoyos Rodriguez, Dimitrios S. Kolovos & Richard F. Paige

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A Annotations and Parameters

A Annotations and Parameters

The following are all the currently supported parameters for the annotations.

1.1 A.1 @Diagram

  • name: The name of the created diagrams as it appears on the diagram creation menus of Papyrus. [required]

  • icon: The icon that will appear next to the name on the diagram creation menus of Papyrus. [optional]

1.2 A.2 @Node

  • base: The name of the UML meta-element that this stereotype should extend. [required]

  • shape: The shape that should be used to represent the node on the diagram. [required]

  • icon: The icon that will appear next to the name of the stereotype in the custom palette. [optional]

1.3 A.3 @Edge

  • base: The name of the UML meta-element that this stereotype should extend. [required]

  • icon: The icon that will appear next to the name of the stereotype in the custom palette. [optional]

  • lineStyle: The style of the line (possible values: solid, dashed, dotted, hidden, double). [optional]

  • source (for EClasses only): The name of the EReference of the EClass that denotes the type of the source node for the edge. [required]

  • target (for EClasses only): The name of the EReference of the EClass that denotes the type of the target node for the edge. [required]

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Zolotas, A., Wei, R., Gerasimou, S., Hoyos Rodriguez, H., Kolovos, D.S., Paige, R.F. (2018). Towards Automatic Generation of UML Profile Graphical Editors for Papyrus. In: Pierantonio, A., Trujillo, S. (eds) Modelling Foundations and Applications. ECMFA 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10890. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92997-2_2

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