Because modeldriven development uses visual modeling techniques to define data relationships, process logic, and build user interfaces, modeldriven software development empowers both developers and business users to rapidly deliver applications without the. Software product line testing a systematic mapping study. Modelbased testing is an application of modelbased design for designing and optionally also executing artifacts to perform software testing or system testing. A method for prioritizing integration testing in software. Test driven development tdd is a bottomup, new approach. In theory and practice of computer science, pages 1121, 2010. A software product line spl is a set of softwareintensive systems sharing a common, managed set of features which satisfy the specific needs of a particular. Examples of integration testing big bang approach, incremental, top down, bottom up, sandwichhybrid, stub, driver. Modelbased testing relies on a model of the system under test. I also have tried to give you a balanced view on mdd by talking about the things to know before starting with mdd and by discussing some potential dangers of mdd. While the requirements specifications, architectural, design, implementation and testing are normally captured by the solution space. A productline modeldriven engineering approach for.
Model based testing relies on a model of the system under test. Testing product generation in software product lines using. Model driven software development mdsd is currently a highly regarded development paradigm among developers and researchers. A modeldriven approach for software product lines requirements engineering. Modeldriven software engineering foundations of model. Product lines multivariant systems are sets of products with similar features, but differences in appearance or price 19. Models can be used to represent the desired behavior of a system under test sut, or to represent testing strategies and a test environment. Chapter modeldriven impact analysis of software product lines. This thesis provides methods for developing modeldriven software product lines, in terms of development methodology, automated assistance and spl evolution support. This paper describes a model based method for the automatic generation of test cases in software product lines. Investigation of tools, techniques and languages for model.
Hence, it highlights and aims at abstract representations of the knowledge and activities that govern a particular application domain, rather than the computing i. It concerns to produce customized software products as atomic or composite services to be reused in soabased applications. That said, this book and the ample way do a great job of introducing productdriven and solutiondriven software product line engineering sple, modeldriven engineering, and aspectoriented software development. Continuous test suite augmentation in software product. This work presents a model based testing approach to be used in model driven development and software product lines projects. Software product line, performance analysis, model to model transformation, uml, marte, atl 1 introduction software product line spl engineering aims at improving productivity and reducing development time, effort, cost, and complexity by gathering the analysis, design and implementation activities of a family of systems. In this sense, a modeldriven development mdd approach. Therefore, this paper proposes a critical embedded system product line model based approach, which aims to reduce the above mentioned challenges. Modelsward 2018 6th international conference on model. Modeldriven testing and domain analysis of productline. This chapter focuses on techniques and tools for modeling, analyzing, and testing plas. Developing modeldriven software product lines core. The approach uses omg standards and defines model transformations from design models to test models. Variability modelling for modeldriven development of.
The effectiveness of a software product line approach directly depends on how well feature. As decreasing testing cost is an important challenge in software product line integration testing, the contribution of this paper is in introducing a method for early integration testing in software product lines based on feature model fm by prioritizing test cases in order to decrease integration testing costs in spls. An alternative to the uml has been realized in the adoption of. This paper also describes an underlying multipleview metamodel for the spl, with consistency checking between the multiple views. As a result, modden aims to leverage the reuse of these artifacts in different software development process phases.
Integrating modeldriven development and software product. A software product line is a family of programs the products with welldefined commonalities and variabilities that are developed by reusing common artifacts. Model driven atchitecture in to support of software. Modeldriven development mdd has emerged as one of the leading approaches for enabling rapid, collaborative application development. That vision evolved into what we now call modeldriven development, where rules, workflows, and dependencies are built once, as models in a centralized repository. More specifically, some solutions improve the product line core assets reusability by designing them according to the model driven architecture approach. This separation of concerns has a long track record in companies practicing software product line engineering cn 2002.
Modden is a spl approach that uses modeldriven techniques. Incremental model checking of deltaoriented software product lines. An integrated modeldriven development environment for composing and validating distributed realtime and embedded systems. The modeldriven paradigm has been successfully used in several different software contexts and there are a lot of literature offering approaches, techniques and tools to guarantee its application in different areas, such as software design, software testing, and so on. Jul 28, 2008 model driven software development is gaining more and more interest nowadays. Aspectoriented, modeldriven software product lines. Finefit is a framework for model based testing of java programs. Although an mdebased approach helps improve productivity by raising the level of abstraction through composition of dsmls and domainspecific component frameworks, it is hard to evolve software plas by incorporating new requirements. Modeldriven engineering mde is a software development methodology that focuses on creating and exploiting domain models, which are conceptual models of all the topics related to a specific problem.
Software product line engineering sple is a successful paradigm to produce a family of products for a specific domain. Modeldriven development mdd is a software engineering approach that uses model to create a product. International workshop on software product line testing, 2007. Test driven development tdd is a bottomup, new approach in the sense that it has picked up its value in the recent years. This nature of the uml can often limit the specificity of the abstraction and representation in which a system is modeled. That said, this book and the ample way do a great job of introducing product driven and solution driven software product line engineering sple, model driven engineering, and aspectoriented software development.
Topdown and bottomup approach for modelbased testing of. Clafer tools is an integrated set of tools based on clafer. First, we introduce the reader to feature modeling, which is one of the most widely used modeling methodologies for capturing pla variability information. Supporting evolution in modeldriven software productline. Modeldriven engineering for software product lines hindawi. The approach centers itself on building models of a software system. Decades before web apps or smartphones existed, the concept of the separation of logic, presentation, and data layers in software made a lot of sense.
Solution approach modeldriven testing and domain analysis of roductp line architectures. Model driven software development is based on a clear distinction between domain engineering, i. Modelsward 2019 7th international conference on model. Product line implementation using aspectoriented and. Modeling variability in the context of software product lines has been around for about 25 years in the research community. The surveyed research indicates software product line testing being a rather immature area.
The approach is completely based on wellknown standards, such as uml 2. Modeldriven software product line engineering is an approach providing solutions to systematically and automatically reuse generic assets in software development. Software product line engineering is a popular approach which improves reusability of software in a large number of products that share a common set of features. Model driven development is sometimes used interchangeably with model driven engineering, and may refer to specific tools and resources, or a model driven approach. Topdown and bottomup approach for modelbased testing. Modeldriven development is sometimes used interchangeably with modeldriven engineering, and may refer to specific tools and resources, or a modeldriven approach. A novel modelbased testing approach for software product lines ferruccio damiani david faitelson christoph gladisch shmuel tyszberowicz received. Pdf a model driven software product line process for. The modeldriven architecture mda is a software design approach that was officially launched in 2001 by its sponsor, the object management group omg. The picture on the right depicts the former approach. Core concepts within model driven development mdd there are two core concepts associated with model driven development. Modeldriven impact analysis of software product lines introduction changes are inevitable in software development and maintenance. Notable software tools for model driven engineering include. Mda is intended to support modeldriven engineering of software systems.
As decreasing testing cost is an important challenge in software product line integration testing, the contribution of this paper is in introducing a method for early integration testing in software product lines based on feature model fm by prioritizing test cases in. Finefit is a framework for modelbased testing of java programs. Model driven software product line process for service. The mda is a specification that provides a set of guidelines for structuring specifications expressed as models. Through the integration of these two approaches we aim to enhance modeldriven techniques by the reuse of models, code, transformation rules and so on. The crucial point in model driven architecture mda 1 is that software and system development are based on abstract models that are successively transformed into more specific models, ideally resulting in the desired system. This thesis focuses on modeldriven software product line development, which is.
Acronyms starting with md are invented from day to day. A critical embedded system product line modelbased approach. The software application model is defined on a higher abstraction level and then converted into a working application using automated transformation or interpretations. The approach was implemented as a framework using existing modelling tools in the market and qvt transformations. Challenges with evolution of modeldriven software productline architectures. Model driven software development is getting momentum. The processes and management concerns are not included in the book. In the finefit approach, the model is expressed by a set of tables based on parnas tables.
Modeling variability in the context of software productlines has been around for about 25 years in the research community. Applying modelbased software product line testing approaches to. I have written a lot about model driven software development approaches from different perspectives. Applying modelbased software product line testing approaches to the automation engineering domain. Model driven approaches partially increase developer productivity, decrease the cost of software construction, improve software reusability, and make software more maintainable. Continuous test suite augmentation in software product lines. Challenges with evolution of model driven software product line architectures. The modeldriven architecture mda is a software design approach that was officially launched in 2001 by its sponsor, the object management group omg mda is intended to support modeldriven engineering of software systems. A challenge in sple is to check that different models used in early spl specification do not contain inconsistent information that may be propagated and generate inconsistent products that do not conform to its requirements. Software product line engineering aims to reduce development time, effort, cost, and complexity by taking advantage of the commonality within a portfolio of similar products. Model driven software development mdsd is a style of software development that considers itself as an alternative to the traditional style of programming. Model driven development vs test driven development computer.
Modeling variability in the context of software productlines has been around for. This book is more about the technical aspects of enabling sple. A novel modelbased testing approach for software product. Model driven development mdd is a software engineering approach that uses model to create a product.
In order to use modeldriven development in software product line engineering, the variability of the different products has to be represented within the used modelling concepts and preserved under model re. More specifically, some solutions improve the product line core assets reusability by designing them. The seminal paper is presented in 2001, and most papers are published in workshops and conferences. Our approach is independent of mobile platforms unlike the works presented in myllymaki et al. In order to use modeldriven development in software product line engineering, the variability of the different products has to be represented within the used modelling. Programming the manual work doing all the farming by hand, its a craft, an. Feature models fms are often used to model commonalities and variabilities within a software product line spl. With the advent of omgs mda and microsofts software factories, the mdsd approach has moved to the centre of the programmers attention, becoming the focus of conferences such as oopsla, jaoo and oop.
Many approaches to creating software product lines have emerged that are based on modeldriven engineering. Modeldriven software engineering in a nutshell modeldriven software engineering mdse is a software engineering paradigm models are considered as primary artifacts from which parts of a software system can be automatically generated. Featureoriented modeldriven software product lines. Modeldriven testing in software product lines request pdf. Pdf a modeldriven approach for software product lines.
First, users recognize the single product variants as members of the same product line because of their resemblance. Driving success through modeldriven software development. Variability modeling in modeldriven software product line. Model driven software product line engineering is an approach providing solutions to systematically and automatically reuse generic assets in software development. Modeldriven and software product line engineering many approaches to creating software product lines have emerged that are based on modeldriven engineering. This paper investigates the methods where model driven software development is integrated with software product line spl. Its the same basic idea, and its just as useful, if not more so. Modeldriven and software product line engineering wiley.
Schmidt, model driven engineering technologies offer a promising approach to address the inability of thirdgeneration languages to alleviate the complexity of platforms and express domain concepts effectively. In this paper, we present a model driven approach to trace both features and uml requirements analysis model elements, and to automatically derive valuable models for domain and application engineering. This paper investigates the methods where model driven software development is. This paper describes a modelbased method for the automatic generation of test cases in software product lines. Although an mdebased approach helps improve productivity by raising the level of abstraction through composition of dsmls and domainspecific component frameworks, it is hard. Software product line engineering sple is an approach for software reuse. Modeldriven software development mdsd is currently a highly regarded development paradigm among developers and researchers. Model driven, process, soa, software product line, tool, variability. Earlier, modeldriven development mdd was a preferred approach for organizations looking to simplify the process of design while promoting. Gustafsson, an approach for selecting software product line instances for testing, in. Integrating performance analysis in the model driven. Model driven development is a topdown, traditional approach that has been around for a long time. Mar 31, 2009 model driven software development is getting momentum. For example from a domain specific language design perspective, an integrated modeling approach for soa perspective, etc.
This paper illustrates how purevariants and openarchitectureware are integrated to enable efficient modeldriven variant management. Model driven development vs test driven development. Software product line engineering is a popular approach which improves reusability of software in a large number of products that share a common set of. Modeldriven software development is gaining more and more interest nowadays. The model driven paradigm has been successfully used in several different software contexts and there are a lot of literature offering approaches, techniques and tools to guarantee its application in different areas, such as software design, software testing, and so on. To this end, developers must be enabled to model different aspects like structure. We propose a tool that supports some software product line visual techniques and model driven techniques. An unprecedented proliferation of mobile applications is transforming processes across industries.
Model driven impact analysis of software product lines the uml is a generalpurpose modeling language that tries to do many things for a broad range of uses. Mdd is part of a trend toward more diverse approaches to the development of. They present an integration of tool suites for modeldriven development and model checking in this area. A case study on a product line of portlets, which are components of web portals, is used to illustrate fomdd. In this paper, we present a modeldriven approach to trace both features and uml requirements analysis model elements, and to automatically derive valuable models for domain and application engineering. Model based testing is an application of model based design for designing and optionally also executing artifacts to perform software testing or system testing.
Integration testing is defined as a type of testing where software modules are integrated logically and tested as a group. Software product line testing seems to be a discussion topic. Beyond being used for a mere description and documentation of variability, variability models are more and more leveraged to produce other artifacts, such as configurators. This thesis provides methods for developing model driven software product lines, in terms of development methodology, automated assistance and spl evolution support. These models are typically made manifest through diagrammatic design notations the uml is one option. Appropriate tooling is the basis for a successful application of the new concepts. Ill first show you the different types of model driven software development using a simple metaphor. The resulting contribution is a synergetic approach for spl requirements. Modeldriven and software product line engineering open. Software engineering, in which feature modeling is fully integrated. Oriented model driven development fomdd is a blend of fop and mdd that shows how programs in a software product line can be synthesized in an mdd way by composing models from features, and then transforming these models into executables. It started with feature modeling and soon enough was extended to handle many different concerns.
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