A Tool Infrastructure for Model-Driven Development Using Aspectual Patterns

A software system can be viewed as a combination of separate concerns covering various artifact types and cross-cutting the primary structure within each artifact type. This chapter presents a concern-based approach to model-driven development. An aspectual pattern concept is used to represent concerns at different model levels. We back our approach with a concrete tool implementation called MADE (Modeling and Architecting Development Environment). The tool has been used in a number of development scenarios providing support for variability management, framework specialization, maintenance, and system comprehension. The tool introduces a task-based model-driven development environment and provides facilities for model generation, checking, and tracing.

Authors and Affiliations

1. Institute of Software Systems, Tampere University of Technology, P.O.BOX 553, FIN-33101, Tampere, Finland

   Imed Hammouda

Editors and Affiliations

1. Federal Finance Office (Bundesamt für Finanzen), Friedhofstr. 1, 53225, Bonn, Germany

   Sami Beydeda

2. Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Klostergasse 3, 04109, Leipzig, Germany

   Matthias Book (Chair of Applied Telematics/e-Business) & Volker Gruhn (Chair of Applied Telematics/e-Business) (Chair of Applied Telematics/e-Business) &  (Chair of Applied Telematics/e-Business)

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