Transformation of Usecase and Sequence Diagrams to Petri Nets

With the growing use of UML diagrams for software design description and the importance of nonfunctional requirements evaluation at software development process, transforming these diagrams to executable models is considered to be significant. Nonfunctional requirements can not be evaluated directly by UML diagrams. Software designers are not usually familiar with non-functional requirement analysis and are not able to analyze such requirements easily. Therefore the designer should produce an executable model from software design description to be ready for analysis. usecase and sequence diagrams are the most important UML diagrams for software design description. In this paper, we propose new algorithms that enable a designer to transform usecase and sequence diagrams into executable models based on Petri nets and then we show how to use this Petri net models for simulation. Finally, to represent the usage of our proposed algorithms, we consider a case study as an example.