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Business rules are an important part of requirement specification, and an essential input for software analysis and design. Usually, at the beginning, they are expressed in natural language, which is later translated by a business analyst to a more formal representation, e.g. UML diagrams. The translation process is error prone because business analysts can misinterpret or omit informally expressed business rules. The aim of the paper is to present an approach to automatic verification of UML class diagrams against business rules, expressed in a semi natural language, i.e. SBVRSE. The proposed approach has been implemented as a tool, and tested on representative examples. At that moment it supports structural business rules. In the future the method will be extended to cover also other types of business rules.
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Hnatkowska, B., Mazurek, P. (2015). Verification of UML Class Diagrams against Business Rules Written in Natural Language. In: Zamojski, W., Mazurkiewicz, J., Sugier, J., Walkowiak, T., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) Theory and Engineering of Complex Systems and Dependability. DepCoS-RELCOMEX 2015. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 365. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19216-1_17
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