Multilevel Modelling Software Development

Author

Duran-Limon, Hector A.

Author_Institution

Inf. Dept., Univ. of Guadalajara

Volume

1

fYear

2006

fDate

Sept. 2006

Firstpage

263

Lastpage

267

Abstract

Different from other engineering areas, the level of reuse in software engineering is very low. Also, developing large-scale applications which involve thousands of software elements such as classes and thousands of interactions among them is a complex and error-prone task. Industry currently lacks modelling practices and modelling tool support to tackle these issues. Model driven development (MDD) has emerged as an approach to diminishing software development complexity. We claim that models alone are not enough to tackle low reuse and complexity. Our contribution is a multilevel modelling development (MMD) framework whereby models are defined at different abstraction levels. A modelling level is constructed out by assembling software elements defined at the adjacent lower-level. MMD effectively diminish development complexity and facilitates large-scale reuse

Keywords

software architecture; software metrics; software reusability; model driven development; multilevel modelling development; software development complexity; software engineering; software reuse; Application software; Computer architecture; Encapsulation; Large-scale systems; Object oriented modeling; Programming; Software architecture; Software engineering; Software libraries; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Robotics and Automotive Mechanics Conference, 2006

Conference_Location

Cuernavaca

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2569-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CERMA.2006.66

Filename

4019748