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International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems

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Integrating Modeling Tools in the Development Lifecycle with OSLC: A Case Study

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Models play a central role in a model driven development process. They realize requirements, specify system design, abstract source code, drive test cases, etc. However, for a modeling tool to be most effective, it needs to integrate its data and workflows with other tools in the development lifecycle. This is often problematic as these tools are usually disparate. OSLC is an emerging specification for integrating lifecycle tools using the principles of linked data. In this paper, we describe how OSLC can be used to integrate MOF-based modeling tools with other lifecycle tools. We demonstrate this in a case study involving an EMF-based modeling tool. We show how we made the tool conform to the OSLC specification and discuss how this enabled it to integrate seamlessly with other lifecycle tools to support some key end-to-end development lifecycle workflows.

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  1. IBM Canada Ltd., Rational Software, Ottawa Lab., 770 Palladium Dr., Kanata, ON, K2V 1C8, Canada

    Maged Elaasar & Adam Neal

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  1. Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Departamento de Informática, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal

    Ana Moreira

  2. Institut für Mathematik, fortiss / Technische Universität München, Guerickestraße 25, 80805, München, Germany

    Bernhard Schätz

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Alabama, Box 870290, 35487-0290, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA

    Jeff Gray

  4. ETSI Informática, Universidad de Málaga, Campus de Teatinos, Bulevar Louis Pasteur 35, 29071, Málaga, Spain

    Antonio Vallecillo

  5. School of Computing and Information Sciences, College of Engineering and Computing, Florida International University, 33199, Miami, FL, USA

    Peter Clarke

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Elaasar, M., Neal, A. (2013). Integrating Modeling Tools in the Development Lifecycle with OSLC: A Case Study. In: Moreira, A., Schätz, B., Gray, J., Vallecillo, A., Clarke, P. (eds) Model-Driven Engineering Languages and Systems. MODELS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8107. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41533-3_10

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