Quality in model-driven engineering: a tertiary study

Goulão, Miguel; Amaral, Vasco; Mernik, Marjan

doi:10.1007/s11219-016-9324-8

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“…Maintainability was the most frequently reported quality attribute (18 studies), followed by reliability, efficiency, and usability (5 studies). The authors concluded that "the coverage of quality attributes is wide, but with a predominance of product quality attributes over quality in use attributes" [23]. Our findings confirm these results, however, the scope and the study design differs.…”

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What software reuse benefits have been transferred to the industry? A systematic mapping study

Barros-Justo

Pinciroli

Matalonga

et al. 2018

Information and Software Technology

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Context: The term software reuse was first used in 1968 at the NATO conference. Since then, work in the scientific literature have stated that the application of software reuse offers benefits such as increase in quality and productivity. Nonetheless, in spite of many publications reporting software reuse experiences, evidence that such benefits having reached industrial settings is scarce. Objective: To identify and classify the benefits transferred to real-world settings by the application of software reuse strategies. Method: We conducted a systematic mapping study (SMS). Our search strategies retrieved a set of 2,413 papers out of which 49 were selected as primary studies. We defined five facets to classify these studies: a) the type of benefit, b) the reuse process, c) the industry's domain, d) the type of reuse and e) the type of research reported. Results: Quality increase (28 papers) and Productivity increase (25 papers) were the two most mentioned benefits. Component-Based Development (CBD) was the most reported reuse strategy (41%), followed by Software Product Lines (SPL, 30%). The selected papers mentioned fourteen industrial domains, of which four stand out: aerospace and defense, telecommunications, electronics and IT services. The application of systematic reuse was reported in 78% of the papers. Regarding the research type, 50% use evaluation research as the investigation method. Finally, 13 papers (27%) reported validity threats for the research method applied. Conclusions: The literature analyzed presents a lack of empirical data, making it difficult to evaluate the effective transfer of benefits to the industry. This work did not find any relationship between the reported benefits and the reuse strategy applied by the industry or the industry domain. Although the most reported research method was industrial case studies (25 works), half of these works (12) did not report threats to validity.

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“…Goulão's work [23] reported a tertiary study about quality in model-driven engineering. They identified 22 systematic literature reviews and mapping studies that report quality attributes in the context of MDE, from 2008 to 2015.…”

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What software reuse benefits have been transferred to the industry? A systematic mapping study

Barros-Justo

Pinciroli

Matalonga

et al. 2018

Information and Software Technology

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“…Their main goal is to improve developers’ productivity as well as reducing the communication gap in software development between programmers and domain experts [ 24 ]. Moreover, DSLs are considered increasingly popular software development techniques, that use concepts from the problem domain rather than the solution domain [ 25 ].…”

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A DSL-Based Approach for Detecting Activities of Daily Living by Means of the AGGIR Variables

Ramírez

Roose

Dalmau

et al. 2021

Sensors

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In this paper, we propose a framework for studying the AGGIR (Autonomie Gérontologique et Groupe Iso Ressources—Autonomy Gerontology Iso-Resources Groups) grid model, with the aim of assessing the level of independence of elderly people in accordance with their capabilities of performing daily activities as well as interacting with their environments. In order to model the Activities of Daily Living (ADL), we extend a previously proposed Domain Specific Language (DSL), by defining new operators to deal with constraints related to time and location of activities and event recognition. The proposed framework aims at providing an analysis tool regarding the performance of elderly/disabled people within a home environment by means of data recovered from sensors using a smart-home simulator environment. We perform an evaluation of our framework in several scenarios, considering five of the AGGIR variables (i.e., feeding, dressing, toileting, elimination, and transfers) as well as health-care devices for tracking the occurrence of elderly activities. The results demonstrate the accuracy of the proposed framework for managing the tracked records correctly and, thus, generate the appropriate event information related to the ADL.

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“…Unlike other reviews on the same topic (most of which are summarized in (Goulão et al, 2016)), we focus on the identification of explicit definitions of quality for MDE, as well as the perception of quality in model-driven projects from real practitioners and its associated support in the academic/research field. This focus is important considering that, in the Engineering field, high quality is determined through an assessment that takes an artifact under evaluation and checks whether or not it is in accordance with to its specification (Krogstie, 2012c).…”

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Considerations about quality in model-driven engineering

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Giraldo-Velásquez, FD.; España Cubillo, S.; Pastor López, O.; Giraldo, WJ. (2016). Considerations about quality in model-driven engineering. Software Quality Journal. 1-66. doi:10.1007/s11219-016-9350-6. Considerations about quality in model-driven engineeringCurrent state and challenges.Fáber D. Giraldo · Sergio España · Oscar Pastor · William J. GiraldoReceived: date / Accepted: date Abstract The virtue of quality is not itself a subject; it depends on a subject. In the software engineering field, quality means good software products that meet customer expectations, constraints, and requirements. Despite the numerous approaches, methods, descriptive models and tools, that have been developed, a level of consensus has been reached by software practitioners. However, in the modeldriven engineering (MDE) field, which has emerged from software engineering paradigms, quality continues to be a great challenge since the subject is not fully defined. The use of models alone is not enough to manage all of the quality issues at the modelling language level.In this work, we present the current state and some relevant considerations regarding quality in MDE, by identifying current categories in quality conception and by highlighting quality issues in real applications of the model-driven initiatives.We identified sixteen categories in the definition of quality in MDE. From this identification, by applying an adaptive sampling approach, we discovered the five most influential authors for the works that propose definitions of quality. These include (in order): the OMG standards (e.g., MDA, UML, MOF, OCL, SysML), the ISO standards for software quality models (e.g., 9126 and 25000), Krogstie, Lindland, and Moody. We also discovered families of works about quality, i.e., works that belong to the same author or topic.Seventy-three works were found with evidence of the mismatch between the academic/research field of quality evaluation of modelling languages and actual MDE practice in industry. We demonstrate that this field does not currently solve quality issues reported in industrial scenarios. The evidence of the mismatch was grouped in eight categories, four for academic/research evidence and four for industrial reports. These categories were detected based on the scope proposed in each one of the academic/research works and from the questions and issues raised by real practitioners.We then proposed a scenario to illustrate quality issues in a real information system project in which multiple modelling languages were used. For the evaluation of the quality of this MDE scenario, we chose one of the most cited and influential quality frameworks; it was detected from the information obtained in the identification of the categories about quality definition for MDE. We demonstrated that the selected framework falls short in addressing the quality issues. Finally, based on the findings, we derive eight challenges for quality evaluation in MDE projects that current quality initiatives do not address sufficiently.

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Quality in model-driven engineering: a tertiary study

Cited by 28 publications

References 42 publications

What software reuse benefits have been transferred to the industry? A systematic mapping study

What software reuse benefits have been transferred to the industry? A systematic mapping study

A DSL-Based Approach for Detecting Activities of Daily Living by Means of the AGGIR Variables

Considerations about quality in model-driven engineering

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