A Novel CASE Tool based on Pre-Conceptual Schemas for Automatically Obtaining UML Diagrams Una Novedosa Herramienta CASE basada en Esquemas Preconceptuales para la Obtención Automática de Diagramas UML

Assistance is provided, in software development process, to Analysts in drawing UML diagrams and others by means of CASE tools. However, the task of the Stakeholder discourse understanding, a previous process in diagram drawing, is not supported by traditional CASE tools. In order to complete this task, Natural Language Processing has proposed a new kind of CASE tools, including both natural language interpretation and UML diagrams generation. We introduce, in this paper, UNC–Diagrammer, a novel CASE tool for graphically representing the Stakeholder discourse by means of Preconceptual Schemas. We also show that UNC-Diagrammer is capable of automatically transforming Pre-conceptual Schemas into three UML 2.0 diagrams. We finally demonstrate the use of UNC–Diagrammer through an example. Keywords—CASE Tools; Pre-Conceptual Schemas, UML 2.0, Software Development Process.