Development of BrainTool for Generation of UML Diagrams from the Two-hemisphere Model Based on the Two-Hemisphere Model Transformation Itself

Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference "Applied Information and Communication Technologies" 2013
Oksana Ņikiforova, Oļegs Gorbiks, Konstantīns Gusarovs, Dace Ahiļčenoka, Andrejs Bajovs, Ludmila Kozačenko, Nadežda Lorence, Dainis Ungurs

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is an industrial standard for object-oriented software specification, which offers notational conventions for system modeling at the initial stage of software development. An actual problem is to develop a tool available for automatic generation of UML diagram from some form of the problem domain description. Authors have been introduced such a tool, called BrainTool and developed by a research group in Riga Technical University. BrainTool supports transformation of the problem domain presented as two-hemisphere model into several kinds of UML diagrams and give an ability to export these diagrams for further software development into UML compatible modeling tools and IDEs. Present paper demonstrates the comparison results of the manual UML class diagram creation during the development of the tool, automatic generation of the UML class diagram received by application of BrainTool for the BraintTool itself and so called “to be” class diagram for BrainTool development. These results give a basis to discuss about possible improvements of the transformations offered by two-hemisphere model and potentially “richer” usage of the model for generation of the UML diagrams suitable for further software development.

Keywords
model transformation tool, two-hemisphere model, UML class diagram, BrainTool

Ņikiforova, O., Gorbiks, O., Gusarovs, K., Ahiļčenoka, D., Bajovs, A., Kozačenko, L., Škindere, N., Ungurs, D. Development of BrainTool for Generation of UML Diagrams from the Two-hemisphere Model Based on the Two-Hemisphere Model Transformation Itself. In: Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference "Applied Information and Communication Technologies", Latvia, Jelgava, 25-26 April, 2013. Jelgava: Latvia University of Agriculture, 2013, pp.259-266.

Publication language
English (en)