Activity Diagram Generation Based on Use-Case Textual Specification

The requirements specification phase is one of the most important during software development. In many cases, its outcome takes a form use-case model, which consists diagrams and supplementary specifications. document used by various stakeholders, starting from customers or their representatives, through architects, developers to testers. Each role may have specific preferences for specification. To solve this problem, we propose template writing use-cases based on existing guidelines transformation method that creates an activity diagram textual consistent with proposed template. There are several tools can generate specification, but none them fully meets resulting diagram, should be correct (textual semantics preserved), UML 2.5 syntax compliant contain necessary data. supported tool transforms models at same level abstraction. itself defined meta-model level. general idea model-to-model not new, meta-models original fit purpose. application demonstrated examples. Due frequent potential changes in created specifications, automation process will save time. Moreover, graphical representation easier analyze find errors inconsistencies compared