Enhancement of natural language processing approach for automated generation of object constraint language

Object Constraint Language (OCL) is the most prevalent modeling language to document requirement constraints that are annotated in the Unified Modeling Language. Various researchers have proved that OCL syntax is complex and difficult for some reasons such as its declarative nature. As the measure of ease-of-use factor of a language has a direct relationship with the language’s usability, the difficulties in the use of OCL result in the low usability of OCL. There are few research works for OCL generation using some different techniques such as pattern-based and Model-Driven Architecture (MDA)-based. The accuracy of the existing patternbased work generating OCL specification is low. MDA focuses on software development based on generating models and transforming these models between each other. There are some researches based on MDA to increase the usability of modeling languages. However, only one of the existing works supports OCL. The existing MDA-based work generating OCL specification does not support some OCL elements, such as collect and reject, and some UML elements such as enumeration. Therefore, this research proposes an MDA-based approach to transform requirement constraints formed in English sentences into OCL specifications using transformation rules. A software tool is developed to validate the proposed approach and compare with the existing works. The comparison shows that the proposed approach solves some limitations of the existing works such as support of some OCL and UML elements, which are not supported by the existing works. The comparison also shows that some accuracy improvement is achieved by the proposed approach in comparison with the existing works

Autogeneración de documentación web a partir de un modelo funcional en la herramienta Recover

Este proyecto consiste en dar a la herramienta Recover la capacidad de generar una documentación web automática y actualizada de un sistema software a partir de la información de la herramienta, una traducción de UML/OCL y la generación automática de diagramas de secuencia y actividadThis project consists into giving Recover tool the capacity of generating an automatic and up-to-date web documentation of a software system from the information provided by the tool, a translation of UML/OCL and an automatic generation of sequence and activity diagrams

A natural language processing approach to generate SBVR and OCL

The Object Constraint Language (OCL) is a declarative language and is used to make the Unified Modeling Language (UML) models well-defined through defining a set of constraints. However, the syntactic complexity of OCL makes the writing of OCL code difficult. A natural language based interface can be useful in making the process of writing OCL expressions easy and simple. However, the translation of natural language (NL) text to object constraint language (OCL) code is a challenging task on account of the informal nature of natural languages as various syntactic and semantic ambiguities make the process of NL translation to formal languages more complex. However, in our approach the usage of SBVR not only provides natural languages a formal abstract syntax representation but it is also close to OCL syntax. In this thesis, a framework is presented to facilitate the users of the UML tools so that they can write invariants and pre/post conditions in English. The results of the case studies manifest that a natural language based approach to generate OCL constraints can not only help in significantly improving usability of OCL but also outperforms the most closely related techniques in terms of effectiveness and effort required in generating OC