A Creative Approach to Reducing Ambiguity in Scenario-based Software Architecture Analysis

doi:10.1007/s11633-017-1102-y

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	A Creative Approach to Reducing Ambiguity in Scenario-based Software Architecture Analysis
	Xi-Wen Wu 2; Chen Li 3; Xuan Wang 1; Hong-Ji Yang 1
刊名	International Journal of Automation and Computing
	2019
卷号	16 期号:2 页码:248-260
关键词	Creative computing vector clock algorithm scenario-based analysis of software architecture sequence diagram Breeze/architecture description language (ADL).
ISSN号	1476-8186
DOI	10.1007/s11633-017-1102-y
英文摘要	In software engineering, a scenario describes an anticipated usage of a software system. As scenarios are useful to understand the requirements and functionalities of a software system, the scenario-based analysis is widely used in various tasks, especially in the design stage of software architectures. Although researchers have proposed various scenario-based approaches to analyse software architecture, there are still limitations in this research field, and a key limitation is that scenarios are typically not formally defined and thus may contain ambiguities. As these ambiguities may lead to defects, it is desirable to reduce them as many as possible. In order to reduce ambiguity in scenario-based software architecture analysis, this paper introduces a creative computing approach to scenario-based software requirements analysis. Our work expands this idea in three directions. Firstly, we extend an architecture description language (ADL)-based language – Breeze/ADL to model the software architecture. Secondly, we use a creative rule – combinational rule (CR) to combine the vector clock algorithm for reducing the ambiguities in modelling scenarios. Then, another creative rule – transformational rule (TR) is employed to help to transform our Breeze/ADL model to a popular model – unified modelling language (UML) model. We implement our approach as a plugin of Breeze, and illustrate a running example of modelling a poetry to music system in our case study. Our results show the proposed creative approach is able to reduce ambiguities of the software architecture in practice.
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.ia.ac.cn/handle/173211/42335]
专题	自动化研究所_学术期刊_International Journal of Automation and Computing
作者单位	1.Center for Creative Computing, Bath Spa University, Bath BA2 9BN, UK 2.Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China 3.Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Xi-Wen Wu,Chen Li,Xuan Wang,et al. A Creative Approach to Reducing Ambiguity in Scenario-based Software Architecture Analysis[J]. International Journal of Automation and Computing,2019,16(2):248-260.
APA	Xi-Wen Wu,Chen Li,Xuan Wang,&Hong-Ji Yang.(2019).A Creative Approach to Reducing Ambiguity in Scenario-based Software Architecture Analysis.International Journal of Automation and Computing,16(2),248-260.
MLA	Xi-Wen Wu,et al."A Creative Approach to Reducing Ambiguity in Scenario-based Software Architecture Analysis".International Journal of Automation and Computing 16.2(2019):248-260.