Runtime semantics of use case stories

2012 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) Pub Date : 2012-09-01 DOI:10.1109/VLHCC.2012.6344506

M. Smialek, Norbert Jarzebowski, W. Nowakowski

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Abstract

Direct end-user participation in software system construction necessitates bringing general-purpose programming activities to the level understandable by “laymen”. This paper introduces a new software development approach where stories written in commonly understood structured natural language gain runtime semantics. Stories are precisely linked to domain concepts and actions, thus forming the application logic of the system. These constructs are written at a high level of abstraction, very close to detailed software requirements specifications. In fact, they are structured into familiar use case models that include special “invocation” relationships between use cases. At the same time, the paper proposes precise translational semantics for such defined stories. For each story element, equivalent Java code is derived. This semantics has been implemented within a tool containing a story editor and a code generator producing fully dynamic application logic code with Swing-based user interface. Ease of use of the new story language and usefulness of the generated Java code has been evaluated through student assignment projects.

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用例故事的运行时语义

直接参与软件系统构建的最终用户需要将通用编程活动提升到“外行人”可以理解的水平。本文介绍了一种新的软件开发方法，其中用通常理解的结构化自然语言编写的故事获得运行时语义。故事与领域概念和操作精确地联系在一起，从而形成系统的应用逻辑。这些构造是在高抽象层次上编写的，非常接近详细的软件需求规范。事实上，它们被构造成熟悉的用例模型，其中包括用例之间特殊的“调用”关系。同时，本文提出了对这类已定义故事的精确翻译语义。对于每个故事元素，派生出等价的Java代码。这个语义是在一个工具中实现的，这个工具包含一个故事编辑器和一个代码生成器，它使用基于swing的用户界面生成完全动态的应用程序逻辑代码。新故事语言的易用性和生成的Java代码的有用性已经通过学生作业项目进行了评估。

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