Automatic code generation using unified modeling language activity and sequence models

Sunitha Edacheril Viswanathan; Philip Samuel

Automatic code generation using unified modeling language activity and sequence models

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Author(s): Sunitha Edacheril Viswanathan ¹ and Philip Samuel ²
- Affiliations: 1: Department of Computer Science, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, India ;
  2: Division of Information Technology, SOE, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, India
Source: Volume 10, Issue 6, December 2016, p. 164 – 172
DOI: 10.1049/iet-sen.2015.0138 , Print ISSN 1751-8806, Online ISSN 1751-8814

Received 19/10/2015, Accepted 25/06/2016, Revised 11/06/2016, Published 01/12/2016

A fully automatic translation of unified modeling language (UML) models to complete source code is not reported so far because some implementation details will not be there in the model, or a single UML model is not enough for complete code generation, or some model elements may not be directly convertible to source code. These issues are addressed in this study. The authors take workflow modelling and automation as the focus of their research. Hence, UML activity diagram is considered. Activity diagram alone cannot give the implementation details like object interactions. A formal association is found between activity and sequence diagrams to add object interaction details to the work flow. Moreover, the authors formulate an algorithm, Am_To_Prototype, which is composed of two subroutines named Method_Body & Excecution_Logic, to generate code from the combined model of activity and sequence diagrams consisting of concurrent activities. The authors compare the proposed method with other research outcomes with respect to workflow automation, support for concurrency, etc. The proposed algorithms are able to generate class definition, method definition and control flow. A case study is presented that demonstrates the algorithm, to generate Java code for the ATM operation.

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