Socio-inspired Design Models for Software Systems Infrastructure

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcel Caroly ◽  
Zenon Chaczko
Keyword(s):  
Software Systems ◽  
Design Models

Model-Driven Reverse Engineering of Open Source Systems

2015 ◽  
pp. 1966-1987
Author(s):  
Ricardo Perez-Castillo ◽  
Mario Piattini
Keyword(s):  
Reverse Engineering ◽  
System Design ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Program Comprehension ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Design Models ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Class Diagrams ◽  
Open Source Systems

Open source software systems have poor or inexistent documentation and contributors are often scattered or missing. The reuse-based composition and maintenance of open source software systems therefore implies that program comprehension becomes a critical activity if all the embedded behavior is to be preserved. Program comprehension has traditionally been addressed by reverse engineering techniques which retrieve system design models such as class diagrams. These abstract representations provide a key artifact during migration or evolution. However, this method may retrieve large complex class diagrams which do not ensure a suitable program comprehension. This chapter attempts to improve program comprehension by providing a model-driven reverse engineering technique with which to obtain business processes models that can be used in combination with system design models such as class diagrams. The advantage of this approach is that business processes provide a simple system viewpoint at a higher abstraction level and filter out particular technical details related to source code. The technique is fully developed and tool-supported within an R&D project about global software development in which collaborate two universities and five companies. The automation of the approach facilitates its validation and transference through an industrial case study involving two open source systems.

Architecture-Driven Service Discovery for Service Centric Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 811-842 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Kozlenkov ◽  
G. Spanoudakis ◽  
A. Zisman ◽  
V. Fasoulas ◽  
F. Sanchez
Keyword(s):  
Service Discovery ◽  
Graph Matching ◽  
Quality Criteria ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Design Phase ◽  
Design Models ◽  
Prototype Tool ◽  
Development Lifecycle ◽  
Execution Engine ◽  
Matching Techniques

Service discovery has been recognized as an important aspect in the development of service-centric systems, i.e., software systems which deploy Web services. To develop such systems, it is necessary to identify services that can be combined in order to fulfill the functionality and achieve quality criteria of the system being developed. In this paper, we present a framework supporting architecture-driven service discovery (ASD)—that is the discovery of services that can provide functionalities and satisfy properties and constraints of systems as specified during the design phase of the development lifecycle based on detailed system design models. Our framework assumes an iterative design process and allows for the (re-)formulation of design models of service-centric systems based on the discovered services. The framework is composed of a query extractor, which derives queries from behavioral and structural UML design models of service-centric systems, and a query execution engine that executes these queries against service registries based on graph matching techniques. The article describes a prototype tool that we have developed to demonstrate and evaluate our framework and the results of a set of preliminary experiments that we have conducted to evaluate it.

Model-Driven Reverse Engineering of Open Source Systems

2017 ◽  
pp. 1029-1051
Author(s):  
Ricardo Perez-Castillo ◽  
Mario Piattini
Keyword(s):  
Reverse Engineering ◽  
System Design ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Program Comprehension ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Design Models ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Class Diagrams ◽  
Open Source Systems

Open source software systems have poor or inexistent documentation and contributors are often scattered or missing. The reuse-based composition and maintenance of open source software systems therefore implies that program comprehension becomes a critical activity if all the embedded behavior is to be preserved. Program comprehension has traditionally been addressed by reverse engineering techniques which retrieve system design models such as class diagrams. These abstract representations provide a key artifact during migration or evolution. However, this method may retrieve large complex class diagrams which do not ensure a suitable program comprehension. This chapter attempts to improve program comprehension by providing a model-driven reverse engineering technique with which to obtain business processes models that can be used in combination with system design models such as class diagrams. The advantage of this approach is that business processes provide a simple system viewpoint at a higher abstraction level and filter out particular technical details related to source code. The technique is fully developed and tool-supported within an R&D project about global software development in which collaborate two universities and five companies. The automation of the approach facilitates its validation and transference through an industrial case study involving two open source systems.

Model-Driven Reverse Engineering of Open Source Systems

2014 ◽  
pp. 139-160
Author(s):  
Ricardo Perez-Castillo ◽  
Mario Piattini
Keyword(s):  
Reverse Engineering ◽  
System Design ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Program Comprehension ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Design Models ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Class Diagrams ◽  
Open Source Systems

Open source software systems have poor or inexistent documentation and contributors are often scattered or missing. The reuse-based composition and maintenance of open source software systems therefore implies that program comprehension becomes a critical activity if all the embedded behavior is to be preserved. Program comprehension has traditionally been addressed by reverse engineering techniques which retrieve system design models such as class diagrams. These abstract representations provide a key artifact during migration or evolution. However, this method may retrieve large complex class diagrams which do not ensure a suitable program comprehension. This chapter attempts to improve program comprehension by providing a model-driven reverse engineering technique with which to obtain business processes models that can be used in combination with system design models such as class diagrams. The advantage of this approach is that business processes provide a simple system viewpoint at a higher abstraction level and filter out particular technical details related to source code. The technique is fully developed and tool-supported within an R&D project about global software development in which collaborate two universities and five companies. The automation of the approach facilitates its validation and transference through an industrial case study involving two open source systems.

Parameterized Transformation Schema for a Non-Functional Properties Model in the Context of MDE

2014 ◽  
pp. 268-288
Author(s):  
Gustavo Millán García ◽  
Rubén González Crespo ◽  
Oscar Sanjuán Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Functional Properties ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Analytical Models ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Design Models ◽  
Performance Properties ◽  
Early Evaluation ◽  
Ideal Framework

The integration between design models of software systems and analytical models of non-functional properties is an ideal framework on which lay the foundation for a deep understanding of the architectures present in software systems and their properties. In order to reach this integration, this chapter proposes a parameterized transformation for a model of performance properties derived from a system model in the MDE context. The idea behind a parameterized term is to leave open the transformation framework to adopt future improvements and make the approach reusable. The authors believe that this kind of integration permits the addition of analysis capabilities to the software development process and permits an early evaluation of design decisions.

Parameterized Transformation Schema for a Non-Functional Properties Model in the Context of MDE

2017 ◽  
pp. 1052-1076
Author(s):  
Gustavo Millán García ◽  
Rubén González Crespo ◽  
Oscar Sanjuán Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Functional Properties ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Analytical Models ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Design Models ◽  
Performance Properties ◽  
Early Evaluation ◽  
Ideal Framework

The integration between design models of software systems and analytical models of non-functional properties is an ideal framework on which lay the foundation for a deep understanding of the architectures present in software systems and their properties. In order to reach this integration, this chapter proposes a parameterized transformation for a model of performance properties derived from a system model in the MDE context. The idea behind a parameterized term is to leave open the transformation framework to adopt future improvements and make the approach reusable. The authors believe that this kind of integration permits the addition of analysis capabilities to the software development process and permits an early evaluation of design decisions.

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