Through the incorporation of derived classes and associations in class diagrams, this paper proposes a method to improve the specification power of multiplicity for n-ary associat...
In the last decades several tools and environments defined and introduced languages for querying, navigating sforming abstract syntax trees. These environments were meant to supp...
Giuliano Antoniol, Massimiliano Di Penta, Ettore M...
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a set of notations for modelling object-oriented systems. It has become the de facto standard. Most of its notations are diagrammatic. An ex...
Analysis and design by contract allows the definition of a formal agreement between a class and its clients, expressing each party’s rights and obligations. Contracts written in ...
Wojciech J. Dzidek, Lionel C. Briand, Yvan Labiche