Automated Tooling for the Evolving SDL Standard: From Metamodels to UML Profiles

摘要

The past decade has seen much research on a model-based language development of the Specification and Description Language (SDL) and a corresponding Unified Modeling Language (UML) profile. However, as far it is still not possible to derive a UML profile for SDL automatically; instead it has to be created by hand, which is error-prone and time-consuming. To remedy this limitation, we present a publicly available metamodel for SDL, which was semi-automatically generated based on SDL's syntax rules. In addition, we automatically derive a UML profile in a novel way so that SDL's static semantics is automatically transferred from the metamodel.