King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

Haris Mumtaz

Mohammad Alshayeb

Mahmood Niazi

Sajjad Mahmood

Methods and devices for improving security of a use case model are described. In accordance with the present disclosure, detection rules are applied to the use case model to detect bad smells. The use case model into an XML representation. The XML representation is refactored using the security bad smells to generate a refactored XML representation of the use case model. A behavior consistency verification processing is performed by processing the refactored use case models. Quality metrics of the refactored XML representation are generated before and after the refactoring. The quality metrics are compared to generate a quality improvement assessment of security for the use case model.

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