Model driven software development and evolution

模型驱动的软件开发和演化

• 批准号: 194741-2006
• 负责人: Kontogiannis, Kostas
• 金额: $ 1.95万
• 依托单位: University of Waterloo
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2008-01-01 至 2009-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=392574
• 关键词: Model; driven; software; development; evolution

Large software applications are designed and developed in distinct phases. These phases pertain to specifying the requirements and the business objectives, designing the system, implementing the source program, testing the individual components and the application as a whole and finally, deploying the system. In the software engineering literature we consider that once software systems are deployed on a site then they enter a new phase which is referred to as, the maintenance phase. In this respect, designing a new system pertains to forward engineering while understanding and maintaining existing systems pertains to reverse engineering and evolution. Traditionally, forward engineering and application evolution were considered as two distinct areas of software engineering research that share very limited, if any, common models, processes, techniques, and tools. It is only recently that the research community and the software engineering practitioners view software development as an iterative and incremental process, where models and artifacts are slowly and incrementally designed, developed and, refined until the full application is completed. Such approaches consider that software development should take the form of consistent, systematic and incremental understanding, manipulation, transformation, evolution, and synchronization of software models. These models co-exist in specialized tools called Integrated Development Environments or IDEs. In this context, the objective of the proposed research is to investigate, design, and implement novel techniques to support the representation, transformation, and synchronization of software models in order to facilitate the semi-automatic, iterative and, incremental design, development and, evolution of large industrial systems. To date, there is only limited research on generalizing such model transformation frameworks that can be used to support the next generation of Integrated Development Environments. This research is expected to provide insights on how to design the next generation Integrated Software Development Environments.

大型软件应用程序是在不同的阶段设计和开发的。这些阶段涉及指定需求和业务目标、设计系统、实现源程序、测试各个组件和整个应用程序，最后部署系统。在软件工程文献中，我们认为，一旦软件系统部署在一个网站上，然后他们进入一个新的阶段，这是被称为维护阶段。在这方面，设计一个新系统属于正向工程，而理解和维护现有系统属于逆向工程和进化。传统上，正向工程和应用程序演化被认为是软件工程研究的两个不同领域，共享非常有限的，如果有的话，共同的模型，过程，技术和工具。直到最近，研究社区和软件工程从业者才将软件开发视为一个迭代和增量的过程，其中模型和工件缓慢而增量地设计，开发和改进，直到完整的应用程序完成。这种方法认为，软件开发应该采取一致的，系统的和增量的理解，操作，转换，进化和同步的软件模型的形式。这些模型共存于称为集成开发环境（IDE）的专用工具中。在这种情况下，所提出的研究的目标是调查，设计和实施新的技术，以支持表示，转换和同步的软件模型，以促进半自动，迭代和增量设计，开发和大型工业系统的演变。到目前为止，只有有限的研究推广这种模型转换框架，可用于支持下一代集成开发环境。这项研究有望为如何设计下一代集成软件开发环境提供见解。