A Case Study on Model-Driven Development and Aspect-Oriented Programming: Benefits and Liabilities

Author(s):  
Uwe Hohenstein ◽  
Christoph Elsner
Author(s):  
Hong Guo ◽  
Hallvard Trætteberg ◽  
Alf Inge Wang ◽  
Shang Gao

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 683-705 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaroslav Porubän ◽  
Michaela Bacíková ◽  
Sergej Chodarev ◽  
Milan Nosál’

Model-driven software development is surrounded by numerous myths and misunderstandings that hamper its adoption. For long, our students were victims of these myths and considered MDSD impractical and only applied in academy. In this paper we discuss these myths and present our experience with devising an MDSD course that challenges them and motivates students to understand MDSD principles. The main contribution of this work is a set of MDSD teaching guidelines that can make the course pragmatic in the eyes of students - programmers. These guidelines introduce MDSD from the viewpoint of a programmer as a pragmatic tool for solving concrete problems in the development process. In our MDSD course we implemented the presented guidelines. The course shows several techniques and principles of model-driven development in multiple incremental iterations instead of concentrating on a single tool. At the same time we unite these techniques by using a dynamic visualisation tool that shows to the students the whole infrastructure in the big picture. The course is implemented as an iterative incremental MDSD case study. The paper concludes with a survey performed with our students that indicates positive results of the approach.


Author(s):  
Guadalupe Ortiz ◽  
Behzad Bordbar

The presented approach draws on two main software techniques: Model-Driven Architecture, and aspect-oriented programming. The method involves modeling of the Quality of Service and Extra-functional properties in a platform-independent fashion. Then applying model transformation, the platform-independent models are transformed into platform-specific models, and finally into code. The code for Quality of Service and Extra-functional properties are integrated into the system relying on aspect-oriented techniques in a decoupled manner. The presented approach is evaluated with the help of a case study to establish that the approach results in increasing the system’s modularity and thus reducing implementation and maintenance costs.


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