General Methodology for developing UML models from UI

TL;DR

This paper presents a methodology to derive UML use case and activity models directly from user interfaces, demonstrated through a case study on Amazon.com, facilitating early performance prediction in web service development.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach for generating UML models from user interfaces, enhancing early-stage performance analysis in multi-disciplinary projects.

Findings

Successfully applied to Amazon.com case study

Enables early performance prediction from UML models

Bridges UI design and UML modeling processes

Abstract

In recent past every discipline and every industry have their own methods of developing products. It may be software development, mechanics, construction, psychology and so on. These demarcations work fine as long as the requirements are within one discipline. However, if the project extends over several disciplines, interfaces have to be created and coordinated between the methods of these disciplines. Performance is an important quality aspect of Web Services because of their distributed nature. Predicting the performance of web services during early stages of software development is significant. In Industry, Prototype of these applications is developed during analysis phase of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). However, Performance models are generated from UML models. Methodologies for predicting the performance from UML models is available. Hence, In this paper, a methodology for developing Use Case model and Activity model from User Interface is presented. The methodology is illustrated with a case study on Amazon.com.