An MDE Process for Generating and Integrating Software Tools: Application to Collaborative Construction of Telecom Services

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1 An MDE Process for Generating and Integrating Software Tools: Application to Collaborative Construction of Telecom Services Vanea Chiprianov Yvon Kermarrec Siegfried Rouvrais Journée sur Transformations de modèles et outillage de l'idm, Brest 07/11/11

2 Agenda 1.Requirements of Telecom Service Providers and Developers 2.A Collaborative Process for the Construction of Telecom Services 3.An MDE Process for Generating and Integrating Software Tools 4.Conclusions and Perspectives page 2

3 Telecom Service Stakeholders [Haalstrand, 1994] page 3

4 Telecom Service Life-cycle [Berndt, 1994] page 4

5 Our Focus on Telecom Service Life-cycle [Berndt, 1994] page 5

6 Requirements of Providers and Developers for Service Construction 1.An overall model 2.Domain specificity 3.Rapid prototyping 4.Collaborative support 5.Early verification/simulation 6.Integration 7.Reuse 8.Wide range of services 9.Easy evolution of services [Haalstrand, 1994], [Kosmas, 1997], [Khlifi, 2008], [Yelmo, 2008] page 6

7 Agenda 1.Requirements of Telecom Service Providers and Developers 2.A Collaborative Process for the Construction of Telecom Services 3.An MDE Process for Generating and Integrating Software Tools 4.Conclusions and Perspectives page 7

8 Responsiblities of a Modeler Modeler = system/software architect/designer Define the architecture/design of the system Explore alternatives, make choices Synthetize a solution, validate it Discuss/work with other teams [Kruchten, 2008] 1.Model 2.Test 3.Collaborate (design decisions and argumentation) 4.Interoperate page 8

9 A Collaborative Process for the Construction of Telecom Services 1.Model 2.Test 3.Collaborate 4.Interoperate page 9

10 A Waterfall-like Process page 10

11 Modeling with DSMLs 1.Model page 11 DSML = graphical language that offers, through appropriate notations and abstractions, expressive power focused on a particular domain, to visualize, specify, construct and document the artifacts of a softwareintensive system. [Booch, 2005], [Deursen, 2000]

12 How do DSMLs contribute towards fullfiling Service Construction Requirements 1.An overall model 2.Domain specificity 3.Rapid prototyping 4.Collaborative support 5.Early verification/simulation 6.Integration 7.Reuse 8.Wide range of services 9.Easy evolution of services page 12

13 Testing through leverage of COTS 1. 2.Test page 13 COTS (Components Off The Shelf) = ''a commercially available or open source piece of software that other software projects can reuse and integrate into their own products'' [Torchiano, 2004]

14 How do Integration of COTS contribute towards fullfiling Service Construction Requirements 1.An overall model 2.Domain specificity 3.Rapid prototyping 4.Collaborative support 5.Early verification/simulation 6.Integration 7.Reuse 8.Wide range of services 9.Easy evolution of services page 14

15 Collaborating by capturing and retrieving Decision Rationale Collaborate 4. page 15 Decision Rationale DSML Decision Rationale = the justification behind decisions, the reasoning that goes into determining the design of the artifact. [Dutoit, 2006]

16 How does a Decision Rationale DSML contribute towards fullfiling Service Construction Requirements 1.An overall model 2.Domain specificity 3.Rapid prototyping 4.Collaborative support 5.Early verification/simulation 6.Integration 7.Reuse 8.Wide range of services 9.Easy evolution of services page 16

17 A Collaborative Process for the Construction of Telecom Services Interoperate page 17 Model Transformations, ontologies, Higher Order model Transformations

18 How does a Decision Rationale DSML contribute towards fullfiling Service Construction Requirements 1.An overall model 2.Domain specificity 3.Rapid prototyping 4.Collaborative support 5.Early verification/simulation 6.Integration 7.Reuse 8.Wide range of services 9.Easy evolution of services page 18

19 How do proposed Software Tools contribute towards fullfiling Service Construction Requirements 1.An overall model 2.Domain specificity 3.Rapid prototyping 4.Collaborative support 5.Early verification/simulation 6.Integration 7.Reuse 8.Wide range of services 9.Easy evolution of services page 19 1.Model 2.Test 3.Collaborate 4.Interoperate

20 Agenda 1.Requirements of Telecom Service Providers and Developers 2.A Collaborative Process for the Construction of Telecom Services 3.An MDE Process for Generating and Integrating Software Tools 4.Conclusions and Perspectives page 20

21 An MDE Process for Developing DSMLs 1.Model page 21

22 How do proposed Software Tools contribute towards fullfiling Service Construction Requirements 1.An overall model 2.Domain specificity 3.Rapid prototyping 4.Collaborative support 5.Early verification/simulation 6.Integration 7.Reuse 8.Wide range of services 9.Easy evolution of services page 22 1.Model

23 An MDE Process for Leveraging COTS for testing 1. 2.Test page 23

24 An MDE Process for Composing Transversal DSMLs Collaborate 4. page 24

25 An MDE Process for Ensuring DSML Interop Interoperate page 25

26 An Integrated MDE Process 1.Model 2.Test 3.Collaborate 4.Interoperate page 26

27 Agenda 1.Requirements of Telecom Service Providers and Developers 2.A Collaborative Process for the Construction of Telecom Services 3.An MDE Process for Generating and Integrating Software Tools 4.Conclusions and Perspectives page 27

28 Conclusions and Perspectives Define MMi essential activity Currently informal Need for formal methods of eliciting and evolving domain models (MMi) Waterfall-like process Currently still reflect practice in some industries Future iterative or agile methods page 28

29 Publication page 29 Chiprianov V., Kermarrec Y., Rouvrais S.: Integrating DSLs into a Software Engineering Process: Application to Collaborative Construction of Telecom Services. Formal and Practical Aspects of Domain-Specific Languages: Recent Developments, Ed. Marjan Mernik, IGI Global, submitted (2012).

30 Publications 1.Chiprianov V., Kermarrec Y., Rouvrais S.: Extending Enterprise Architecture Modelling Languages: Application to Telecommunications Service Creation. The 9th Enterprise Engineering track at the 27 th Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Trento, Italy, 6pp, accepted, (2011) rank B [ERA]. 2.Chiprianov V., Alloush I., Kermarrec Y., Rouvrais S.: Telecommunications Service Creation: Towards Extensions for Enterprise Architecture Modeling Languages. In: Proc. of the 6th Intl Conf. on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT), Seville, Spain, vol 1, pp , (2011) - rank B [ERA]. 3.Chiprianov V., Kermarrec Y., Rouvrais S.: Towards semantic interoperability of graphical domain specific modeling languages for telecommunications service design. In: Proc. of the 2nd Intl Conf. on Models and Ontology-based Design of Protocols, Architectures and Services (MOPAS), Budapest, Hungary, pp.21-24, (2011). 4.Chiprianov, V., Kermarrec, Y. and Alff, P.: A Model-Driven Approach for Telecommunications Network Services Definition. In: Proceedings of the 15th Open European Summer School and IFIP TC6. 6 WS on The Internet of the Future, LNCS, pages , Barcelona, Spain, (2009). 5.Rouvrais S., Chiprianov V.: Modeling and Architecting Educational Frameworks. In: Electronic Proc. of the 7th Intl CDIO Conf., Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen (2011). 6.Chiprianov, V., Kermarrec, Y., Rouvrais, S.: Meta-tools for Software Language Engineering: A Flexible Collaborative Modeling Language for Efficient Telecommunications Service Design. In: FlexiTools WS, 32nd ACM/IEEE Intl. Conf. on Soft. Engineering (ICSE), Cape Town, South Africa, 5 pp, (2010). 7.Chiprianov, V., Kermarrec, Y.: An Approach for Constructing a Domain Definition Metamodel with ATL. In: Model Transformation with ATL, 1st Intl. WS,Nantes,France, pp 18-33, (2009). 8.Chiprianov V., Kermarec Y., Rouvrais S.: Practical Model Extension for Modeling Language Profiles. An Enterprise Architecture Modeling Language Extension for Telecommunications Service Creation. 7émes Journées sur l Ingénierie Dirigée par les Modèles, Lille, France, pp , Chiprianov, V., Kermarrec, Y.: Model-based DSL Frameworks: A Simple Graphical Telecommunications Specific Modeling Language. In: 5émes Journées sur l Ingénierie Dirigée par les Modèles, Nancy, France, pages , (2009). page 30

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