Seamlessness integration between textual informal BON and Java

Stephen Kow Sarquah

AbstractBON (Business Object Notation) is a method well suited for analysis and design of object-oriented systems. BON focuses on seamlessness, reversibility, scalability, simplicity and software contracts to achieve the goal of narrowing the gap between analysis, design and implementation by using the same notation and semantics in the three phases. BON has two kinds of notations, graphical and textual BON. Textual BON is divided into formal diagrams and informal charts to describe static and dynamic modeling of object-oriented software. Textual informal BON is written in structured English. An example of a query in a class chart would be What is its name?
Textual informal BON is possible to write by hand but at this point there exists no tool which integrates textual informal BON with Java in such a way that the textual informal BON generates Java source code and the Java source code generates textual informal BON in such a way that feels seamless for the user of the tool.
This master thesis documents the design and implementation of a textual informal BON editor called iBONText, which has a code generator that features
seamless integration from textual informal BON to Java. iBONText is able to reverse the process and generate textual informal BON from Java. The code generation from BON to Java creates Javadoc custom annotations and follows Java identifier naming conventions. When the textual informal BON updates the Java source code updates correspondingly. This gives traceability from the analysis to the implementation, making the software development more efficient.
TypeMaster's thesis [Academic thesis]
Year2013
PublisherTechnical University of Denmark, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
AddressMatematiktorvet, Building 303B, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, compute@compute.dtu.dk
SeriesM.Sc.-2013-83
NoteDTU supervisor: Joseph Kiniry, jkin@dtu.dk, DTU Compute
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Publication linkhttp://www.compute.dtu.dk/English.aspx
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IMM Group(s)Computer Science & Engineering