Reflections on Model Driven Development

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1 Reflections on Model Driven Development Lisboa, 5/3/2013 Alberto Rodrigues da Silva

2 Agenda Background Core Concepts - Models and Metamodels - Anatomy of Modeling Languages MDD/MDE - Models, Transformations, Platforms - Initiatives and Tools Our Research some Thesis Discussion 2

3 Background ProjectIT Initiative It is a research program from the Information Systems Group (GSI) of INESC-ID Objectives: - analysis, integration and support the best practices in the management and implementation of IT projects Motivation: - How to improve the quality and productivity of IT projects? 3

integration and support the best practices in the management and

4 ProjectIT Initiative Key research topics System Engineering MDE, Model-Driven Engineering RE, Requirements Engineering Project Management 4

5 Core Concepts Models and Metamodels Descreve > +sus Sistema +modelo < Confo rmecom Modelo Elemen tode > Linguagem Model ação Metam odelo Descreve > 5

6 Core Concepts Modeling Languages DSL «synonym» Linguagem Model ação Sintaxe Abstracta «synonym» Metamodelo Sintaxe Concreta «synonym» Nota ção Semântica Pragmática 6

7 MDE/MDD Considers Models as first class citizen artefacts and allow - through various techniques such as, for example, metamodeling, model transformations, code generation and models interpretation - the production or automatic execution of software systems based on these models. 7

transformations, code generation and models interpretation - the

8 MDE/MDD Initiatives and Tools Some popular initiatives - MDA (Model Driven Architecture) - Software Factories - MIC (Model Integrated Computing) 8

9 MDE/MDD Initiatives and Tools The most popular tools - Eclipse EMF (Eclipse Modeling Framework) - Microsoft VisualStudio DSL Tools Many others - Quidgest s Genio - Outsystems Agile Platforms - JetBrains s MPS - NSI s NS 9

VisualStudio DSL Tools Many others - Quidgest s Genio -

10 MDE/MDD In one picture! Plata forma Transformação +fonte Modelo +destino +modelo-executável Arte facto Não-Gerado Transforma ção Modelo-Plataforma Transforma ção Modelo-Modelo Produto Arte facto Gerado +destino 10

11 Our research DSL designed so far ProjectIT-RSL and RSLingo - Requirements Specification Languages XIS2 - extreme Modeling for Interactive Systems CMS-ML - Modeling Language for CMS-based web-applications DSL3S - DSL for Spatial Simulations in the field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) See some papers available from 11

CMS-based web-applications DSL3S - DSL for Spatial Simulations in the field of Geographic

12 Our research Some Thesis T1 UML is not enough and appropriate for defining UIs so we proposed the XIS UML Profile - Carlos Martins, Modelação de Interfaces Gráficas no âmbito do ProjectIT (MEI/UMA), MSc Thesis, Univ. Madeira, Nov Raul Queiroga, LEIC, IST/UTL, Arquitecturas de Software no projecto XIS, Relatório de TFC, LEIC, IST, Outubro de Gonçalo Lemos & Tiago Matias, LEIC, IST/UTL, XIS - extended Interactive Systems, Relatório de TFC, LEIC, IST, Julho de

- Raul Queiroga, LEIC, IST/UTL, Arquitecturas de Software no projecto XIS, Relatório de TFC, LEIC, IST, Outubro de 2004.

13 Our research Some Thesis T2 In many situations we need to provide multiple related languages to better support different stakeholders - We validate this in the context of CMS-based Web Apps João de Sousa Saraiva, Development of CMS-based Web Applications with a Multi- Language Model-Driven Approach, PhD Thesis, IST/UTL Jan/

context of CMS-based Web Apps João de Sousa Saraiva, Development of CMS-based Web

14 Our research Some Thesis T3 Natural Language is the best RSL but still has several drawbacks regarding quality - We proposed the RSLingo approach to increase the RE productivity and quality David de Almeida Ferreira, RSLingo: a Formal Requirements Specification Approach based on Linguistic Patterns, PhD Thesis, IST/UTL, March/

productivity and quality David de Almeida Ferreira, RSLingo: a Formal Requirements

15 Discussion Research agenda! Hot research issues in MDE? -Alignment between RE and MDE -Architectures: Patterns, Frameworks -Languages: syntax and expressiveness, semantics, pragmatics -Tools: Models transformers, compilers, debuggers, viewers, simulaters 15

Frameworks -Languages: syntax and expressiveness, semantics,

16 Discussion The emergence of lots of DSLs! Is this a Good or a Bad situation? Are we return to the days before the UML language? 16

17 Discussion It is hard to transfer this technology! How to transfer DSL and MDE technologies to the Industry? Why is it so hard to transfer it? 17

18 Thank you! For further information feel free to contact me, Alberto Rodrigues da Silva IST / Technical University of Lisbon Department of Computer Science and Engineering alberto.silva@inesc-id.pt

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