A systematic identification of consistency rules for UML diagrams

1. The problem (s) specifically addressed by the paper / Research Questions

There are no Uniform UML consistency rules

RQ1) What are the existing UML consistency rules?

RQ2) Which types of consistency problems are tackled in the existing rules?

RQ3) What types of UML diagrams are involved in UML consistency rules?

RQ4) For what software engineering activities are UML consistency rules used?

RQ5) Which UML diagram elements are involved in UML consistency rules?

RQ6) What software development phases are involved with UML consistency rules?

2. Approach, Techniques, Models, Methodology used to tackle the problem (s)

They used a systematic procedure for a wide range of consistency rules and ultimately selected 119 rules to be studied extensively.

3. Results Obtained / Evaluation

RQ1) What are the existing UML consistency rules?

Table 6 clarifies the existing rules as well as shows the type of coverage of consistency for you, whether it be Horizontal, Vertical, Evolution, Invocation, or Observation.

RQ2) Which types of consistency problems are tackled in the existing rules?

The results showed that most of the consistency rules were of the type: Horizontal and Syntactic. The problem is that syntactic rules are easier to specify than semantic rules.

RQ3) What types of UML diagrams are involved in UML consistency rules?

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