Abstract
Choreography, as a service-oriented architecture-specific viewpoint, is increasingly present in the embedded systems domain. Existing languages for choreography modelling, however, are insufficiently expressive to capture the complexities that are typical in the embedded systems domain. To address this, a new language for choreography modelling was designed. This study presents an empirical evaluation of the language and findings based on the evaluation. The empirical evaluation was conducted with experts from four software companies and two university research groups. Data were collected using focus group method and analysed with template-based thematic analysis. The findings of the evaluation revealed (a) software testing and protocol development as areas in which the new language can be applied, (b) design requirements for the language improvement, and (c) practical challenges regarding the use of the language. For practitioners, the findings confirmed the applicability of choreography modelling in protocol development and that users’ level of expertise has a significant influence on the introduction of the language into practice. For researchers, the findings revealed how choreography can by used beyond its original purpose in the testing phase and identified new aspects that can be considered during choreography modelling language design.
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The CML and its editor are publicly accessible and can be obtained from [3].
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The authors are grateful to FG participants for their time and effort and to the AMALTHEA partners for their cooperation. This study was supported by ITEA2 and Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation.
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Taušan, N., Lehto, J., Markkula, J., Kuvaja, P., Oivo, M. (2016). Choreography Modelling Language for the Embedded Systems Domain. In: Abrahamsson, P., Jedlitschka, A., Nguyen Duc, A., Felderer, M., Amasaki, S., Mikkonen, T. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10027. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49094-6_10
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