MetaEdit— A flexible graphical environment for methodology modelling

Smolander, Kari; Lyytinen, Kalle; Tahvanainen, Veli-Pekka; Marttiin, Pentti

doi:10.1007/3-540-54059-8_85

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“…Nevertheless, these initiatives (such as MetaEdit [27] and then MetaEdit+ [28]), GME [29] or MetaEnv [30] to mention just a few 2 ) were more focused on the creation of a modeling environment for the new metamodel plus some support for typical (forward) engineering activities, i.e., code generation to some popular languages.…”

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A Model Driven Reverse Engineering Framework for Extracting Business Rules Out of a Java Application

Cosentino

Cabot

Albert

et al. 2012

Rules on the Web: Research and Applications

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Context: Most companies, independently of their size and activity type, are facing the problem of managing, maintaining and/or replacing (part of) their existing software systems. These legacy systems are often large applications playing a critical role in the company's information system and with a non-negligible impact on its daily operations. Improving their comprehension (e.g., architecture, features, enforced rules, handled data) is a key point when dealing with their evolution/modernization.Objective: The process of obtaining useful higher-level representations of (legacy) systems is called reverse engineering (RE), and remains a complex goal to achieve. Socalled Model Driven Reverse Engineering (MDRE) has been proposed to enhance more traditional RE processes. However, generic and extensible MDRE solutions potentially addressing several kinds of scenarios relying on different legacy technologies are still missing or incomplete. This paper proposes to make a step in this direction.Method: MDRE is the application of Model Driven Engineering (MDE) principles and techniques to RE in order to generate relevant model-based views on legacy systems, thus facilitating their understanding and manipulation. In this context, MDRE is practically used in order to 1) discover initial models from the legacy artifacts composing a given system and 2) understand (process) these models to generate relevant views (i.e., derived models) on this system. Results: Capitalizing on the different MDRE practices and our previous experience (e.g., in real modernization projects), this paper introduces and details the MoDisco open source MDRE framework. It also presents the underlying MDRE global methodology and architecture accompanying this proposed tooling.Conclusion: MoDisco is intended to make easier the design and building of modelbased solutions dedicated to legacy systems RE. As an empirical evidence of its relevance and usability, we report on its successful application in real industrial projects and on the concrete experience we gained from that.

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Section: Mdre and Re: Current State Of The Artmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Model Driven Reverse Engineering Framework for Extracting Business Rules Out of a Java Application

Cosentino

Cabot

Albert

et al. 2012

Rules on the Web: Research and Applications

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“…The use of ADLs in these application domains has enabled automated system analysis, and automated code generation (e.g. MetaEdit+ [26]). However, given that such capabilities were less important for this project than our much simpler goals of easy adoption and straightforward system description, and the fact that these ADLs are specialised for embedded systems rather than large information systems, we did not feel that we should receive a return on the investment required to tailor and adopt them.…”

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Modelling large-scale information systems using ADLs – An industrial experience report

Woods

Bashroush

2015

Journal of Systems and Software

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An organisation that had developed a large information system wanted to embark on a programme that would involve large-scale evolution of it. As a precursor to this, it was decided to create a comprehensive architectural description to capture and understand the system's design. This undertaking faced a number of challenges, including a low general awareness of software modelling and software architecture practices. The approach taken by the software architects tasked with this project included the definition of a simple, very specific, architecture description language. This paper reports our experience of the project and a simple ADL that we created as part of it.

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“…MetaEdit+ (Tolvanen, 2004) is based on the discontinued MetaEdit tool (Smolander et al, 1991), but improves architectural aspects which were not resolved correctly and increases the scalability and efficiency of the tool. It is possible to create the metamodel and modeling in a single environment.…”

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Introducción breve a la ingeniería dirigida por modelos

Díaz

Núñez‐Valdéz

Espada

et al. 2014

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La crisis del software es un concepto que comenzó a utilizarse en 1968, en la primera conferencia organizada por la Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte (OTAN) en el desarrollo de software. Allí, Edsger Dijkstra criticó que los proyectos no se completaban debido a la clásica triple restricción de la gestión de proyectos —alcance, tiempo y costo—, ya que la mayoría de ellos no alcanzaban los requisitos previstos, se entregaban fuera de plazo o superaban el costo esperado. Por desgracia, la realidad actual es que; si bien se han propuesto nuevas metodologías destinadas a la solución de los problemas habituales relacionados con el desarrollo de software, todavía no existe un método fiable para estimar el desarrollo de los sistemas informáticos. En este artículo se presenta el enfoque de Ingeniería Dirigida por Modelos que, según los expertos, ayudará a resolver muchos de los problemas que miles de equipos de desarrollo de software tienen a diario en todo el mundo.

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MetaEdit— A flexible graphical environment for methodology modelling

Cited by 84 publications

References 11 publications

A Model Driven Reverse Engineering Framework for Extracting Business Rules Out of a Java Application

A Model Driven Reverse Engineering Framework for Extracting Business Rules Out of a Java Application

Modelling large-scale information systems using ADLs – An industrial experience report

Introducción breve a la ingeniería dirigida por modelos

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