Model-Based Engineering: A New Era Based on Papyrus and Open Source Tooling

Model-Based Engineering (MBE) has proven to be highly successful in many different contexts in large software organizations such as Ericsson over the last decades. However, the broad adoption of MBE has been significantly limited by the fact that existing tools have failed to provide for better customizability and support for Domain-Specific Modeling Language (DSML) and to deliver capabilities to cover for the broad range of development aspects that are considered critical by end-users. Moreover, the lack of evolution of commercial modeling tools in the recent years has led several development units to seriously re-consider the use of modeling tools. We believe that the emergence of Papyrus as an industrial-grade open source modeling UML tool has the potential to be a real game changer and provide the required cornerstone of a new MBE era that will enable collaboration between industry and the research community to develop a complete MBE Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that will provide support for the broad set of capabilities required by the end-users.