Devs Unified Process for Integrated Development and Testing of Service Oriented Architectures

.................................................................................................................... 16 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION.................................................................................. 18 1.1 Problem Definition........................................................................................................................24 1.2 Thesis Organization ......................................................................................................................28 CHAPTER 2: RELATED TECHNOLOGIES AND EARLIER WORK.................. 29 2.1 Model-Based Software Engineering Process ..............................................................................29 2.2 Model-Based Testing Methodologies...........................................................................................32 2.3 Automated Test Case Generation using UML Constructs ........................................................36 2.4 DEVS-Based Bifurcated Model-Continuity Process ..................................................................41 2.5 Distributed Modeling and Simulation.........................................................................................45 CHAPTER 3: DEVS MODELING AND SIMULATION FRAMEWORK.............. 49 3.1 DEVS System Specifications ........................................................................................................51 3.1.1 Hierarchy of System Specifications ...........................................................................................51 3.1.2 Framework for Modeling & Simulation.....................................................................................54 3.1.3 Model Continuity .......................................................................................................................55 3.2 Model/View/Controller (MVC) Paradigm and DEVS Framework ..........................................56 3.2.1 Real-Time Control and Visualization Limitations of Existing Network Simulators..................57 3.2.2 Enhanced MVC..........................................................................................................................59 3.3 Dynamic Model and Simulation Reconfiguration......................................................................61 3.3.1 Variable Structure DEVS ...........................................................................................................61 3.3.2 Implementation of Variable Structure in Extended MVC..........................................................64 3.3.3 Notion of System Steady State...................................................................................................65