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Supporting model-driven development using a process-centered software engineering environment

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The adoption of Model-Driven Development (MDD) is increasing and it is widely recognized as an important approach for building software systems. In addition to traditional development process models, an MDD process requires the selection of metamodels and mapping rules for the generation of the transformation chain which produces models and application code. In this context, software process tasks should be performed in a specific sequence, with the correct input artifacts to produce the output ones. However, existing support tools and transformation engines for MDD do not have a process-centered focus that addresses different kinds of software process activities, such as application modeling and testing to guide the developers. Furthermore, they do not enable process modeling nor the (semi) automated execution of activities during process enactment. The MoDErNE (Model Driven Process-Centered Software Engineering Environment) uses process-centered software engineering environment concepts to improve MDD process specification and enactment by using a metamodeling foundation. In MoDErNE, a software process model may be enacted several times in different software projects. This paper details the MoDErNE environment, its approach and architecture and also the case studies through which the tool was evaluated.

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  1. AndroMDA.org Home—http://www.andromda.org/.

  2. Blu Age—http://www.bluage.com/en/en_home.html.

  3. Eclipse Process Framework—http://www.eclipse.org/epf/.

  4. ATL—http://www.eclipse.org/atl/.

  5. QVT—http://www.omg.org/spec/QVT/1.0/.

  6. MOFScript—http://eclipse.org/gmt/mofscript/.

  7. Acceleo—http://www.acceleo.org/.

  8. Eclipse Process Framework—http://www.eclipse.org/epf/.

  9. GMF----www.eclipse.org/gmf/.

  10. UML2Tools—http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/?project=uml2tools.

  11. PapyrusUML—http://www.papyrusuml.org.

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This work is partially funded by FAPESB, project number 5156/2008, and grant number PES0091/2008.

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    Rita Suzana Pitangueira Maciel, Ramon Araújo Gomes, Ana Patrícia Magalhães, Bruno C. Silva & João Pedro B. Queiroz

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Maciel, R.S.P., Gomes, R.A., Magalhães, A.P. et al. Supporting model-driven development using a process-centered software engineering environment. Autom Softw Eng 20, 427–461 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10515-013-0124-0

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