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Number 1 - March 2006
Volume 16 - 2006
Refinement of UML collaborations
Bogumiła Hnatkowska, Zbigniew Huzar, Lech Tuzinkiewicz
Abstract
The paper concerns the concept of refinement as a commonly used design practice in the software development process. The refinement relationship is formulated and formally expressed for UML collaborations. Collaborations are suitable for presenting the proposed approach as they represent both static and dynamic aspects of a modeled system or its part, for example, a use case. Our approach to refinement is based on the rule of preserving the observable behavior of a modeled system. The introduced notion of sub-collaborations allows us to refine collaboration diagrams in a systematic way.
Keywords
UML, collaborations, refinement