{"id":908,"date":"2011-01-23T11:02:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T11:02:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-05-19T12:58:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T12:58:53","slug":"executable-uml","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/executable-uml\/","title":{"rendered":"Executable UML"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Executable UML approach aims at defining UML models with a behavioral specification precise enough to be effectively executed. In its purest state, Executable UML eliminates the need of programming the software system. Through <a href=\"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/blog\/content\/executable-models-vs-code-generation-vs-model-interpretation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> compilation or model interpretation <\/a>, the software models are directly used to run the system.<\/p>\n<p>A key ingredient of any Executable UML variant is the use of an Action language (kind of a pseudocode) that allows designers to completely specify fine-grained behavioural aspects of the model (e.g. to define the behaviour of a method of a class)<\/p>\n<p>To know more about Executable UML, you can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read how an <a href=\"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/blog\/content\/uml-action-language-omg-journey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Action Language was added to the UML <\/a><\/li>\n<li>And discover the <a href=\"\/new-executable-uml-standards-fuml-and-alf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> New Executable UML Standards: fUML and Alf <\/a><\/li>\n<li>Check the <a href=\"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/list-of-executable-uml-tools\/\">list of Executable UML tools <\/a><\/li>\n<li>Check the<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ModelDriven\/fUML-Reference-Implementation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> reference implementation <\/a>for the fUML standard<\/li>\n<li>Read this interview for a <a href=\"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/models-to-code-interview-leon-starr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">less &#8220;standard&#8221; approach view on executable models<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>See the presentation &#8220;Programming in UML&#8221; below<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #CCC; border-width: 1px 1px 0; margin-bottom: 5px; max-width: 100%;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/7390788\" width=\"597\" height=\"486\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\"><strong> <a title=\"Programming in UML: An Introduction to fUML and Alf\" href=\"https:\/\/fr.slideshare.net\/seidewitz\/programming-in-uml-an-introduction-to-fuml-and-alf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Programming in UML: An Introduction to fUML and Alf<\/a> <\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/seidewitz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ed Seidewitz<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Executable UML approach aims at defining UML models with a behavioral specification precise enough to be effectively executed. In its purest state, Executable UML eliminates the need of programming the software system. Through compilation or model interpretation , the software models are directly used to run the system. A key ingredient of any Executable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"hashtags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}