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DEPL — No Traceability if optional labels are blank

  • Key: DEPL-12
  • Legacy Issue Number: 5964
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Zuehlke Engineering ( Frank Pilhofer)
  • Summary:

    The Execution Data Model explains that the Planner may construct
    label attributes from the Component Data Model's label attributes.
    This is problematic, and does not provide traceability if the
    original label attributes are empty. An alternative is to name
    each subelement. This is easy e.g. in the ComponentAssemblyDes-
    cription, by changing the label attribute to name. For the
    implementations in a package, or for artifacts in a monolithic
    implementation, a qualified association could be used, were they
    available in MOF (they are not); new classes would have to be
    introduced, such as a NamedComponentImplementationDescription
    class that is contained by the ComponentPackageDescription, has
    a name attribute and a reference to the "real" ComponentImple-
    mentationDescription.

    Proposed resolution:

    In the elements of a ComponentAssemblyDescription (Subcomponent-
    instantiationDescription, AssemblyConnectionDescription, Assembly-
    PropertyMapping), change the "label" attribute to a "name" attri-
    bute, and clarify that the name must be unique among these ele-
    ments.

    Introduce a new class NamedComponentImplementationDescription
    with a 1..1 association to ComponentImplementationDescription.
    Edit ComponentPackageDescription by making its 1..* "implements"
    relationship point to the new class.

    Introduce a new class NamedImplementationArtifactDescription
    with a 1..1 association to ImplementationArtifactDescription.
    Edit MonolithicImplementationDescription by making its 1..*
    "primaryArtifact" relationship point to the new class. Edit
    ImplementationArtifactDescription by making its 0..* "dependsOn"
    relationship point to the new class.

    Throughout the ExecutionDataModel, clarify that these names are
    used (instead of labels) to generate a human readable path that
    identifies the source element.

  • Reported: DEPL 1.0b1 — Thu, 19 Jun 2003 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:58 GMT