Method and computer program product for providing a representation of software modeled by a model
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsAlan Hartman, Shiri Kremer, Yael Shaham-Gafni, Netta Shani
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Abstract
A computer program product and a method for providing a graphical representation of a software, the method includes: receiving semantic concern defining information; populating at least one semantic concern, in response to the received semantic concern defining information; and associating between multiple elements in response to semantic relation information, if semantic concern relation information was previously received.
Claims17
A method for providing a representation of a software, the method comprising:
- receiving semantic concern defining information;
- populating at least one semantic concern, in response to the received semantic concern defining information;
- and associating between multiple semantic elements in response to semantic relation information, if semantic relation information was previously received, wherein associating is performed by
- constructing a plurality of models having model elements;
- executing a graphic interface on a computing device to display a graphic representation of the models;
- constructing semantic queries to validate the models;
- detecting a re-evaluation event;
- responsively to the re-evaluation event making a revision of the graphic representation to conform the at least one semantic concern to the re-evaluation event;
- automatically or semi-automatically, using the computing device, conforming the models with the revision of the graphic representation, updating the semantic queries in compliance with the conformed models;
- and
- executing the updated semantic queries to determine whether the software violates a predetermined validation rule.
A method of representing software, comprising the steps of:
- defining a meta-model of software to be validated comprising abstract semantic concerns and abstract semantic inter-relationships among the abstract semantic concerns;
- automatically, using a computing device, defining actual semantic concerns relating to the software;
- constructing a plurality of models representing respective ones of the actual semantic concerns and actual semantic inter-relationships therebetween, wherein the models have model elements comprising semantic elements and conform to the meta-model, and wherein the actual semantic concerns comprise dynamic actual semantic concerns that are subject to updating, and an n-ary relationship exists between at least one group of the model elements that comprises a set of the actual semantic concerns;
- executing a graphic interface on the computing device to display a graphic representation of the models;
- constructing semantic queries to validate the models;
- detecting a re-evaluation event;
- responsively to the re-evaluation event making a revision of the graphic representation to conform the dynamic actual semantic concerns to the re-evaluation event;
- automatically or semi-automatically, using the computing device, conforming the models with the revision of the graphic representation, updating the semantic queries in compliance with the conformed models;
- and
- executing the updated semantic queries to determine whether the software violates a predetermined validation rule.
A computer software product for representing software, including a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium in which computer program instructions are stored, which instructions, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform the steps of:
- defining actual semantic concerns relating to the software;
- constructing a plurality of models representing respective ones of the actual semantic concerns and actual semantic inter-relationships therebetween, wherein the models have model elements comprising semantic elements and conform to a meta-model, and wherein the actual semantic concerns comprise dynamic actual semantic concerns that are subject to updating, and an n-ary relationship exists between at least one group of the model elements that comprises a set of the actual semantic concerns;
- executing a graphic interface to display a graphic representation of the models;
- constructing semantic queries to validate the models;
- detecting a re-evaluation event;
- responsively to the re-evaluation event making a revision of the graphic representation to conform the dynamic actual semantic concerns to the re-evaluation event;
- conforming the models with the revision of the graphic representation, updating the semantic queries in compliance with the conformed models;
- and
- executing the updated semantic queries to determine whether the software violates a predetermined validation rule.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.