The many meanings of UML 2 Sequence Diagrams: a survey

CímThe many meanings of UML 2 Sequence Diagrams: a survey
Közlemény típusaJournal Article
Kiadás éve2011
SzerzőkMicskei, Z., and Waeselynck, H.
FolyóiratSoftware and Systems Modeling
Kötet10
Kezdőoldal489
Kiadás4
Pagination489-514
ISSN1619-1366
KulcsszavakMSC, semantics, sequence diagram, UML
Összefoglalás

Scenario languages are widely used in software development. Typical usage scenarios, forbidden behaviors, test cases, and many more aspects can be depicted with graphical scenarios. Scenario languages were introduced into the Unified Modeling Language (UML) under the name of Sequence Diagrams. The 2.0 version of UML changed Sequence Diagrams significantly and the expressiveness of the language was highly increased. However, the complexity of the language (and the diversity of the goals Sequence Diagrams are used for) yields several possible choices in its semantics. This paper collects and categorizes the semantic choices in the language, surveys the formal semantics proposed for Sequence Diagrams, and presents how these approaches handle the various semantic choices.

DOI10.1007/s10270-010-0157-9