RÉSUMÉ. Nous nous intéressons dans cet article à la gestion de l’évolution logicielle dans les processus pilotés par les modèles (MDE). Plus spécifiquement, nous tentons de hisser la gestion de l’évolution logicielle au niveau des spécifications. Nous examinons les défis conceptuels et techniques qui apparaissent lorsque la gestion de l’évolution est considérée comme une problématique de premie...

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With the recent trend to model driven development a commonly agreed notion of “model” becomes a pivotal issue. However, currently there is little consensus about what exactly a model is and what it is not. Furthermore, basic terms such as “metamodel” are far from being understood in the same way by all members of the modeling community. This article attempts to start establishing a consensus ab...

Traceability has been held as an important factor in Model Driven Development. This paper takes a look at traceability related to model to text transformations. This is done through presenting scenarios and needs for such traceability and presenting a possible solution to the challenge. Examples of how the proposed solution works have been included using concrete examples of models and transfor...

Model-driven development (MDD) can help verify the accuracy of models and generate source codes, which allows a programmer to minimize the development time required to evaluate the software so that he or she can focus on the modeling process. Thus, modeling should be taught with MDD because it allows students to acquire modeling skills in a short period of time. We conducted a course to teach U...

Engineering complex service-oriented systems presents grand challenges due to their great complexity, volatility, and uncertainty in their rapidly evolving technology and social contexts. It demands an effective engineering approach in order to satisfy the needs of service economics. This paper proposes an approach called Organic Aggregation Service Engineering Framework (OASEF). Experience fro...

Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) and ModelDriven Development (MDD) are often said to be alike since both approaches are based on the selection of elements (i.e. join points in AOSD and model elements in MDD) and their subsequent adaptation (i.e. weaving in AOSD and transformation in MDD). But does this mean that AOSD and MDD are in fact two words for pretty much the same thing? In th...

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) specification is widely adopted in software engineering. When tools do not fully implement the UML specification, the user might be locked-in to a modeling tool, e.g. when exported models are not compatible among tools or tools implement different subsets of the UML. These compatibility problems also have significant impact on the effectiveness of model-drive...

Model-Driven Security (Mds) is a specialized Model-Driven Engineering (Mde) approach for supporting the development of secure systems. Model-Driven Security aims at improving the productivity of the development process and quality of the resulting secure systems, with models as the main artifact. Among the variety of models that have been studied in a Model-Driven Security perspective, one can ...

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. The effectiveness of a software product line approach directly depends on how well feature variability within the portfolio is implemented and managed throughout the development lifecycle, from early analysis through maint...