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Reflections on Model Driven Development
Lisboa, 5/3/2013
Alberto Rodrigues da Silva
Agenda
�Background
�Core Concepts
-Models and Metamodels
-Anatomy of Modeling Languages
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-Anatomy of Modeling Languages
�MDD/MDE
-Models, Transformations, Platforms
- Initiatives and Tools
�Our Research – some Thesis
�Discussion
Background – ProjectIT Initiative
� It is a research program from the Information
Systems Group (GSI) of INESC-ID
�Objectives:
- analysis, integration and support the best practices in
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the management and implementation of IT projects
�Motivation:
- “How to improve the quality and productivity of IT
projects?”
ProjectIT Initiative
�System Engineering
�MDE, Model-Driven Engineering
�RE, Requirements Engineering
�Project Management
Key research topics
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Core Concepts Models and Metamodels
Modelo
Sistema
+modelo
Descreve > +sus
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Modelo
Linguagem
Modelação
Metamodelo
< Confo rmeCom
Descreve >
Elemen toDe >
Core Concepts Modeling Languages
Linguagem
Modelação
Sintaxe
Abstracta
Sintaxe
Concreta
Metamodelo
Notação
DSL«synonym»
«synonym»
«synonym»
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Semântica
Pragmática
MDE/MDD
�Considers Models as first class citizen artefacts
and allow - through various techniques such as,
for example, metamodeling, model
transformations, code generation and models
interpretation - the production or automatic
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interpretation - the production or automatic
execution of software systems based on these
models.
MDE/MDD
�Some popular initiatives
- MDA (Model Driven Architecture)
- Software Factories
- MIC (Model Integrated Computing)
Initiatives and Tools
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- MIC (Model Integrated Computing)
MDE/MDD
�The most popular tools
- Eclipse EMF (Eclipse Modeling Framework)
- Microsoft VisualStudio DSL Tools
Many othersG
Initiatives and Tools
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� Many othersG
- Quidgest’s Genio
- Outsystems’ Agile Platforms
- JetBrains’s MPS
- NSI’s NS
MDE/MDD In one picture!
Plata formaTransformação Modelo
+modelo-executável
+destino
+fonte
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Produto
Transforma ção
Modelo-Modelo
Transforma ção
Modelo-Plataforma
Arte facto
Gerado
Arte facto
Não-Gerado
+destino
Our research
�ProjectIT-RSL and RSLingo
- Requirements Specification Languages
�XIS2
- eXtreme Modeling for Interactive Systems
DSL designed so far*
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- eXtreme Modeling for Interactive Systems
�CMS-ML
- Modeling Language for CMS-based web-applications
� DSL3S
- DSL for Spatial Simulations in the field of Geographic
Information Systems (GIS)
See some papers available from http://isg.inesc-id.pt/alb/ProjectIT
Our research Some Thesis
� T1 – UML is not enough and
appropriate for defining UIs
soGwe proposed the XIS UML
Profile
Carlos Martins, Modelação de Interfaces
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- Carlos Martins, Modelação de Interfaces
Gráficas no âmbito do ProjectIT (MEI/UMA),
MSc Thesis, Univ. Madeira, Nov 2007.
- Raul Queiroga, LEIC, IST/UTL, Arquitecturas
de Software no projecto XIS, Relatório de TFC,
LEIC, IST, Outubro de 2004.
- Gonçalo Lemos & Tiago Matias, LEIC,
IST/UTL, XIS - eXtended Interactive Systems,
Relatório de TFC, LEIC, IST, Julho de 2003.
Our research Some Thesis
� T2 – In many situations we need to provide multiple related
languages to better support different stakeholders
- We validate this in the context of CMS-based Web Apps
João de Sousa Saraiva,
Development of CMS-based Web
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Development of CMS-based Web
Applications with a Multi-
Language Model-Driven
Approach, PhD Thesis, IST/UTL
Jan/2013
Our research Some Thesis
� T3 – Natural Language is the best RSL but still has several
drawbacks regarding qualityG
- We proposed the RSLingo approach to increase the RE
productivity and quality David de Almeida Ferreira, RSLingo: a Formal
Requirements Specification Approach based on
Linguistic Patterns, PhD Thesis, IST/UTL,
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Linguistic Patterns, PhD Thesis, IST/UTL,
March/2013
Research agenda!
�Hot research issues in MDE?
-Alignment between RE and MDE
-Architectures: Patterns, Frameworks
Discussion
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-Languages: syntax and expressiveness,
semantics, pragmatics
-Tools: Models transformers, compilers,
debuggers, viewers, simulaters
The emergence of lots of DSLs!
�Is this a Good or a Bad situation?
�Are we return to the days before the UML
language?
Discussion
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It is hard to transfer this technology!
�How to transfer DSL and MDE technologies
to the Industry?
�Why is it so hard to transfer it?
Discussion
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�For further information feel free to
contact me,
Alberto Rodrigues da Silva
Thank you!
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IST / Technical University of Lisbon
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
[email protected] - http://isg.inesc-id.pt/alb/
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