An approach to constructing timing diagrams from UML/MARTE behavioral models for guidance and control unit software

Abstract

Timing-related issues need to be managed from early design phase for successful development of GCU (Guidance and Control Unit) software. UML/MARTE behavioral models can specify timing information in the multiple viewpoints. Among UML behavioral models, UML timing diagrams are useful to show timing information intuitively. We propose an approach to constructing timing diagrams with MARTE annotations from the state machine and sequence diagrams with MARTE annotations. The proposed approach consists of the consistency checking step to get well-formed UML/MARTE models and the model transformation step to construct timing diagrams. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.