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Experiences from Representing Software Architecture in a Large Industrial Project Using Model Driven Development

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Anders Mattsson,

Bjorn Lundell,

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SHARK-ADI '07: Proceedings of the Second Workshop on SHAring and Reusing architectural Knowledge Architecture, Rationale, and Design Intent

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A basic idea of Model Driven Development (MDD) is to capture all important design information in a set of formal or semi formal models that are automatically kept consistent by tools. This paper reports on industrial experience from use of MDD and shows that the approach needs improvements regarding the architecture since there are no suggested ways to formalize design rules which are an important part of the architecture. Instead, one has to rely on time consuming and error prone manual interpretations, reviews and reworkings to keep the system consistent with the architecture. To reap the full benefits of MDD it is therefore important to find ways of formalizing design rules to make it possible to allow automatic enforcement of the architecture on the system model.

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Gleirscher MGolubitskiy DIrlbeck MWagner S(2018)Introduction of static quality analysis in small- and medium-sized software enterprisesSoftware Quality Journal10.1007/s11219-013-9217-z22:3(499-542)Online publication date: 24-Dec-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s11219-013-9217-z

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Experiences from Representing Software Architecture in a Large Industrial Project Using Model Driven Development
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
        Systems analysis and design
      2. Software management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Software architectures

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Gleirscher MGolubitskiy DIrlbeck MWagner S(2018)Introduction of static quality analysis in small- and medium-sized software enterprisesSoftware Quality Journal10.1007/s11219-013-9217-z22:3(499-542)Online publication date: 24-Dec-2018
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