Modelling software development methodologies: A conceptual foundation

González-Pérez, César; Henderson‐Sellers, Brian

doi:10.1016/j.jss.2007.02.048

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“…Listing 7 shows the syntactic template that allows these linguistic extensions when creating DSMLs for process modelling, and Listing 8 shows its use. Line 5 in Listing 7 usesˆLingElements to allow defining new clabjects as part of a process model, so that we can define the clabject ProgLanguage in Listing 8 (lines [19][20][21][22] task Design "high and low level design" : SETask { …”

Section: Customising the Meta-modelling Facilities At The Syntax Levelmentioning

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“…If we apply this rule to the model excerpt shown in Figure 16, where a new clabject Contract has been defined at level 1, we obtain a Tag object from this clabject. The key of the tag is the identifier of the object ontological type (line 20), while its value is the concatenation of each field name and value (lines [21][22].…”

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Model-driven engineering with domain-specific meta-modelling languages

2013

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The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10270-013-0367-zDomain-specific modelling languages are normally defined through general-purpose meta-modelling languages like the MOF. While this is satisfactory for many model-driven engineering (MDE) projects, several researchers have identified the need for domain-specific meta-modelling (DSMM) languages. These provide customised domain-specific meta-modelling primitives aimed at the definition of modelling languages for a specific domain, as well as the construction of meta-model families. Unfortunately, current approaches to DSMM rely on ad hoc methods which add unnecessary complexity to the realization of DSMM in practice. Hence, the goal of this paper is to simplify the definition and usage of DSMM languages. For this purpose, we apply multi-level meta-modelling for the systematic engineering of DSMM architectures. Our method integrates techniques to control the meta-modelling primitives offered to the users of the DSMM languages, provides a flexible approach to define textual concrete syntaxes for DSMM languages, and extends existing model management languages (for model-to-model transformation, in-place transformation and code generation) to work in a multi-level setting, thus enabling the practical use of DSMM in MDE. As a proof of concept, we report on a working implementation of these ideas in the MetaDepth tool.We thank the referees for their detailed and useful comments. This work has been funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitivity with project “Go Lite” (TIN2011-24139), and the R&D programme of Madrid Region with project “eMadrid” (S2009/TIC-1650)

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Section: Customising the Meta-modelling Facilities At The Syntax Levelmentioning

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Section: Deep Transformations Oftentimes a Transformationmentioning

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Model-driven engineering with domain-specific meta-modelling languages

2013

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“…To our knowledge, there is no other work on the denition of rigorous languages for documenting BPs. However this eld can bene t from works concerned with method engineering ( [7], [8]) and software development process ( [17]). Indeed, a BP is a particular form of development method.…”

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Good Architecture = Good (ADL + Practices)

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2010

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Abstract. In order to ensure the quality of their software development process, companies incorporate best practices from recognized repositories or from their own experiences. These best practices are often described in software quality manuals that do not guarantee their implementation. In this paper, we propose a framework for the implementation of best practices concerning the design of the software architecture. We treat the case of architecture design activity because it's the basis of the software development process. Our framework enables on the one hand to describe best practices and on the other hand to check their application by designers. We present an implementation of our framework in the Eclipse platform and for an ADL dedicated to Web applications. Finally, we give an example of use from the context of our industrial partner. to direct the architect toward the subset of relevant models among those allowed by the language. In this sense, BPs help the architect to limit the area of choice thanks to a language restriction adapted to the project. They help to increase the e ectiveness of development in terms of quality and productivity.Additional BPs speci c to an application domain, a technology or a managerial and cultural context may also emerge from projects within companies. Properly used in a project, these best language practices constitute the expertise and the value-added of a company. This valuable capital of knowledge guarantees to a company the quality of its architectural models and thus allows to satisfy its customers, to stand out, and to solicit labels and certi cates [11]. In other words, to be competitive.Unfortunately, we show in section 2 of this paper that due to a lack of an adequate formalism to document this knowledge, companies that try to capitalize on this knowledge use informal documents, often incomplete, poorly referenced, and sometimes scattered. This leads to an inadequate and ine ective use and sometimes loss of best language practices. This loss decrease the quality of the designed architectures. We rely for that on a study conducted with an industrial partner that uses a dedicated ADL for Web applications. We propose a language (section 3) and a software platform (section 4) that allow respectively to document and to enact these BPs for any graphical ADL. In this way, we ensure the durability and reuse of knowledge, as well as a constant veri cation of the application of best language practices. We then show, in section 5, how this language can be used to document some BPs for web applications coming from our industrial partner. In the same section, we show also how these practices can be integrated in their ADL tool (AlCoWeb-Builder). Thus, this helps developers to respect the best language practices de ned in their own companies, without changing their working habits. Finally, we describe related work in section 6 before concluding in section 7. Problem StatementIn this section, we show the interest for a company to make productive its language practices. We rely ...

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“…This is often depicted as the widely know stack of metalevels, usually labelled MO, M I, etc. This worldview is called the strict metamodelling paradigm, and, although prevalent within the OMG's technology suite, it has been widely criticised from academia [2,7]. To the best of our knowledge, no convincing reasons have been shown to exist as of why the strict metamodelling paradigm should be accepted.…”

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“…[9, 20D, and goes beyond that of "instance-of'. A full discussion of the concept of representation is out of scope of this paper; please see [7] for an extended treatment. The absence of the artificial restrict ions imposed by the strict metamo delling paradigm, together with the flexible yet grounded concept of representation, gives ISO/lEe 24744 some capabil ities that are discusses in the following sections .…”

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Supporting Situational Method Engineering with ISO/IEC 24744 and the Work Product Pool Approach

González-Pérez

IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing

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Abstract. The advantages of situational method engineering (SME) as an approach to the development, specification and application of methods are significant. However, taking this approach into practice in real-world settings is often a daunting task, because the necessary infrastructure and superstructure are not currently available. By infrastructure, we mean the underpinning theoretical and technological foundations on which SME is based; in this regard, this paper explains how the ISO/IEC 24744 metamodel solves many long-standing problems in methodology specification and enactment that other approaches, such as OMG's SPEM, cannot. By superstructure, we mean the exploitation mechanisms, often in the form of tools and decision procedures, that allow individuals and organisations to obtain value out of SME during their daily activities. Without these, SME is often seen as a purely theoretical exercise with little practical purpose. In this regard, we this paper also introduces the work product pool approach, which departs from the conventional view that methodologies must be described in a process-centric fashion to focus on a product-centric worldview, thus providing teams the capability to adopt an opportunistic and people-oriented setting in which to conduct their work.

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Modelling software development methodologies: A conceptual foundation

Cited by 50 publications

References 12 publications

Model-driven engineering with domain-specific meta-modelling languages

Model-driven engineering with domain-specific meta-modelling languages

Good Architecture = Good (ADL + Practices)

Supporting Situational Method Engineering with ISO/IEC 24744 and the Work Product Pool Approach

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