High Level Support for Performance Engineering, and Model Integration and Model Transformation

....................................................................................................................................................... i Acknowledgements..................................................................................................................................... ii Lists of Figures .......................................................................................................................................... iii Lists of Tables........................................................................................................................................... ix Chapter 1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 The problem domain of the Argo/MTE project .............................................................................. 3 1.1.1 Using middleware in software architecture .............................................................................. 3 1.1.2 Software architecture modeling ............................................................................................... 3 1.1.3 Software architecture performance evaluation ........................................................................ 4 1.1.4 Extending ArgoUML............................................................................................................... 4 1.2 The problem domain of the MaramaMTE+ project....................................................................... 4 1.2.1 Marama meta-tool and MaramaMTE ...................................................................................... 5 1.2.2 Web load testing and the Form Chart model ........................................................................... 5 1.2.3 Automatic web reverse engineering......................................................................................... 6 1.3 The problem domain of MaramaCRelation ................................................................................... 6 1.3.1 Model Driven Engineering in Software Engineering .............................................................. 6 1.3.2 Model integration..................................................................................................................... 7 1.3.3 Model transformation............................................................................................................... 7 1.3.4 Analyze and design MI&T....................................................................................................... 8 1.4 Outline of thesis ............................................................................................................................. 8 Chapter 2 Related Work .................................................................................................................. 10 2.1 Software architecture modelling .................................................................................................. 10 2.1.1 Architecture Description Language ....................................................................................... 10