Documenting the refinement relationship between layers allows developers to verify
whether the code meets its specification or not, trace the impact of changes in the business …

Reuse is an important aspect of software engineering that promises advantages like faster
time-to-market, cost reduction, better maintainability etc. The software industry focuses on …

The old technique of" abstraction and refinement" makes it possible to understand complex
systems by describing them in successive levels of detail. On the other hand the more …

Abstract Design and maintenance of enterprise applications is complicated due to
dependencies on technical requirements of the middleware framework. Especially, porting …

The refinement technique allows us to capture the relationship between specification and
implementation in software developments. The precise documentation of the refinement …

Model Refinement is a relationship that relates two elements representing the same concept
at different levels of abstraction. In UML, Refinement is described in an informal way. To …

Reuse in software construction has been a core aspect of software engineering since the
term was coined in late 70's [2]. Strategies for reuse like high level languages, structuring …

La técnica de refinamiento permite capturar la relación entre especificación e
implementación en desarrollos de software. La documentación precisa de la relación de …

In the development of complex software system, it is important to use hierarchical use case
model due to the complex scope of development procedure. The use case model is core …

Although the Abstraction artifact allows for the explicit documentation of the
abstraction/refinement relationship in UML models, an important amount of variations of this …