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Refactoring the Scenario Specification: A Message Sequence Chart Approach

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Object-Oriented Information Systems (OOIS 2003)

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Improving the maintainability and reusability of the scenario specification has gained increasing attention as it increases requirement quality and reduces software costs. This paper extends the concept of refactoring from source code to scenario specifications, which are described with the message sequence chart (MSC). A set of MSC specification properties that refactorings must keep are proposed. Refactorings for MSC specifications are described. Finally, we show an example to illustrate the process of refactoring MSC specifications.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410083, P.R.China

    Shengbing Ren

  2. Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1M8, Canada

    Kexing Rui & Greg Butler

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  1. Centre Universitaire d’Informatique, University of Geneva, 24 rue Général Dufour, 1211, Geneva 4, Switzerland

    Dimitri Konstantas

  2. Department of Information Science and Media Studies CUI, University of Geneva, 24 Rue du Général Dufour, 1211, Geneve 4, Switzerland

    Michel Léonard

  3. University of Lausanne Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, 1015, Dorigny, Switzerland

    Yves Pigneur

  4. Information Systems and Mathematics, South Bank University School of Computing, 103 Borough Road, SE1 0AA, London, UK

    Shusma Patel

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Ren, S., Rui, K., Butler, G. (2003). Refactoring the Scenario Specification: A Message Sequence Chart Approach. In: Konstantas, D., Léonard, M., Pigneur, Y., Patel, S. (eds) Object-Oriented Information Systems. OOIS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2817. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45242-3_29

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