Enhancement of Action Description Language for UML Activity Diagram Review

The UML activity diagram is graphical presentation that describes the operational process and related causes used in each stage of the system. For understanding and accurate communication, the UML standard is required for determining the congruent and consistent format application. To detect the misconception and incorrect notation, this paper presents an automation approach to reviewing UML activity diagrams based on a domain specific language, called Action Description Language (ADL). The input is the UML activity diagram in the XMI format. Due to the variations of XMI formats, the review process starts with the standardization of the XMI source file. Next, the ADL script will be created using the information extracted from the XMI file. The ADL script will then be verified against the UML constraints defined in the UML standard 2.4.1. The inspection result will be reported. In case of valid activity diagrams, the ADL scripts will be parsed to the ADL semantic model as the final output from the system. The demonstration of the proposed method was performed via three cases. Currently, the implemented prototype can review only the activity diagrams created by ArgoUML and Modelio.