scholarly journals Model-Driven Approach and Library of Reusable Source Code for Automation of IT Operations

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-12
Author(s):  
Artūrs Bartusevičs ◽  
Andrejs Lesovskis ◽  
Viktorija Ponomarenko
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Source Code ◽  
Configuration Management ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Software Configuration Management ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Software Configuration ◽  
Bug Tracking ◽  
Model Driven Approach ◽  
It Operations

Abstract Large software development projects with high levels of agility require several IT operations: software configuration management, bug tracking management, making software builds and deployments. Due to high agility in projects, the starting phases are very chaotic and sometimes in a few days customer is willing to get the first release of software. It means that all IT operations should be automated as soon as possible. The study presents a model-driven approach for automation of IT operations through the reuse of the existing source code. In addition, it presents a method for the development of library of reusable source code. The paper contains a brief description of the model-driven approach, library of source code and meta-models developed for a new methodology. The paper ends with the results of the practical experiments and conclusions on how this approach could be improved in the future.

UCDiff: Difference Detection in Use Case Models of Healthcare System

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 2369-2377
Author(s):  
Waqar Mehmood ◽  
Hassan Jari ◽  
Ali Tahir ◽  
Waqar Aslam ◽  
Muhammad Kamran
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Model Comparison ◽  
Configuration Management ◽  
Use Case ◽  
Software Configuration Management ◽  
Difference Detection ◽  
Software Configuration ◽  
Use Case Models ◽  
Use Case Model

Development of large-scale healthcare software projects essentially need the efficient management of the created software artifacts during software development process. In such projects different versions of an artifact are created at different times. Traditional software configuration management systems, such as Git, Subversion (SVN), etc., are designed for later phases of software development, which mainly handle the source code document. These systems are unable to perform difference detection and version management tasks on models such as unified modeling language diagrams. UML use case model is used for capturing functional requirements at analyses phase. Different versions of the use case model are created during analyses phase. This paper addresses the detection of differences between two versions of a use case model. In order to perform difference detection, we need to perform three main tasks, i. e., extract the contents of the model, comparison of models and difference representation. Most of the existing approaches in literature of model comparison deal with UML class diagrams. To the best of our knowledge, so far no appropriate approach addresses difference computation of use case model. Existing approaches are not applicable on use case model due to different semantics of use case model. In this research, the concept of model-based software configuration management (SCM) for use case difference detection is proposed. The use case models are created in an open source tool, starUML. The proposed difference algorithm is applied on intermediate tree structure representation of models. As a case study, different versions of a patient appointment healthcare system is used to evaluate different evaluation parameters, such as accuracy, domain independence, high conceptual level and tool independence.

UCDiff: Difference Detection in Use Case Models of Healthcare System

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 2369-2377
Author(s):  
Waqar Mehmood ◽  
Hassan Jari ◽  
Ali Tahir ◽  
Waqar Aslam ◽  
Muhammad Kamran
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Model Comparison ◽  
Configuration Management ◽  
Use Case ◽  
Software Configuration Management ◽  
Difference Detection ◽  
Software Configuration ◽  
Use Case Models ◽  
Use Case Model

Development of large-scale healthcare software projects essentially need the efficient management of the created software artifacts during software development process. In such projects different versions of an artifact are created at different times. Traditional software configuration management systems, such as Git, Subversion (SVN), etc., are designed for later phases of software development, which mainly handle the source code document. These systems are unable to perform difference detection and version management tasks on models such as unified modeling language diagrams. UML use case model is used for capturing functional requirements at analyses phase. Different versions of the use case model are created during analyses phase. This paper addresses the detection of differences between two versions of a use case model. In order to perform difference detection, we need to perform three main tasks, i. e., extract the contents of the model, comparison of models and difference representation. Most of the existing approaches in literature of model comparison deal with UML class diagrams. To the best of our knowledge, so far no appropriate approach addresses difference computation of use case model. Existing approaches are not applicable on use case model due to different semantics of use case model. In this research, the concept of model-based software configuration management (SCM) for use case difference detection is proposed. The use case models are created in an open source tool, starUML. The proposed difference algorithm is applied on intermediate tree structure representation of models. As a case study, different versions of a patient appointment healthcare system is used to evaluate different evaluation parameters, such as accuracy, domain independence, high conceptual level and tool independence.

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