An Analysis on OCL/UML Constraints in E-commerce Application

Abstract

E-commerce is the most efficient and time-effective method to promote a product to worldwide customers. Its transaction may require submitting customer’s personal information such as username, password, credit card numbers, and financial data. Unified Modeling Language (UML) or Object Constraint Language (OCL) was one of the standardized languages for software developers with visualizing the software system in e-commerce. In e-commerce, purpose security is the primary issue meant for transferring personal data, online payment, and user details. Due to the lack of such security, a significant portion of the customers is feeling uncomfortable to send their respective information over the Internet. This study investigated completely 40 different kinds of literature which are collected from standard publications. Each research paper analyzes different ideas to secure online shopping based on the UML/OCL. In the existing papers, some of the security drawbacks are pointed out and they are overcome by various languages with different software effectively is reviewed by using new research papers.