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8.7.7 Tips on Creating Metrics and Rules for Profile Extensions

We have discussed three options to deal with stereotypes in UML profiles: Here are some guidelines to decide which option to use for a given stereotype. Using extension references with inheritance, the inheritance mechanism plays a more important role in the SDMetrics metamodel. With the support for profiles, a number of features were introduced to provide more flexibility dealing with inheritance: Where to go from here

On the SDMetrics web site, you can download a set of project files for SysML 1.2, with metrics and rules that cover block definition diagrams, internal block diagrams, parametric diagrams, and requirement diagrams.