Model-Driven Architecture in Practice: A Software Production Environment Based on Conceptual Modeling - Hardcover

Pastor, Oscar; Molina, Juan Carlos

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540718672 ISBN 13: 9783540718673

Publisher: Springer, 2007

Synopsis

This book introduces all the relevant information required to understand and put Model Driven Architecture (MDA) into industrial practice. It clearly explains which conceptual primitives should be present in a system specification, how to use UML to properly represent this subset of basic conceptual constructs, how to identify just those diagrams and modeling constructs that are actually required to create a meaningful conceptual schema, and how to accomplish the transformation process between the problem space and the solution space. The approach is fully supported by commercially available tools.

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Review

"This book describes a method that will allow software engineers to focus on the problem that really matters, namely understanding the requirements of information systems and their applications. The method is supported by a tool that generates production-quality code from a conceptual model. The book does an excellent job of explaining the underlying philosophy and practical applications of OO-Method." --Prof. Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, The Netherlands

"Whether you are an executive leading the software development life cycle in your organization, a manager leading a development team, or a software engineer developing software, this book will help you to effectively and efficiently incorporate a complete model-driven approach of software development into your software practices. Complete because all major aspects of software development are covered, even user interface which is not covered by UML. For me, this book is a must!" --Prof. Jean Vanderdonckt , Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium

"This book offers both a rigorous academic treatment of conceptual modeling as a precursor to full code generation and a practitioner s insights into realizing this dream. (...) See what can be done by a real collaboration between academia and industry." --Prof. Brian Henderson-Sellers, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

From the Back Cover

Formal specification languages, object-oriented methods, CASE tools, component-based software production, agent-oriented, aspect-oriented ... During the last two decades many techniques have been proposed from both research and industry in order to generate a correct software product from a higher-level system specification. Nevertheless, the many failures in achieving this goal have resulted in scepticism when facing any new proposal that offers a "press the button, get all the code" strategy. And now the hype around OMG’s MDA has given a new push to these strategies.

Oscar Pastor and Juan Carlos Molina combine a sound theoretical approach based on more than 10 years’ research with industrial strength and practical software development experience. They present a software process based on model transformation technology, thus making the statement "the model is the code" – instead of the common "the code is the model" – finally come true. They clearly explain which conceptual primitives should be present in a system specification, how to use UML to properly represent this subset of basic conceptual constructs, how to identify just those diagrams and modeling constructs that are actually required to create a meaningful conceptual schema, and, finally, how to accomplish the transformation process between the problem space and the solution space.

Their approach is fully supported by commercially available tools, and the subsequent software production process is dramatically more efficient than today’s conventional software development processes, saving many man-days of work. For software developers and architects, project managers, and people responsible for quality assurance, this book introduces all the relevant information required to understand and put MDA into industrial practice.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 3540718672
• ISBN 13: 9783540718673
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 318