Model-driven development using UML 2.0: promises and pitfalls

Author

France, Robert B. ; Ghosh, Sudipto ; Dinh-Trong, Trung ; Solberg, Arnor

Author_Institution

Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO, USA

Volume

39

Issue

2

fYear

2006

Firstpage

59

Lastpage

66

Abstract

Experience indicates that effective complexity management mechanisms automate mundane development tasks and provide strong support for separation of concerns. For example, current high-level programming languages and integrated development environments provide abstractions that shield developers from intricate lower-level details and offer automated support for transforming abstract representations of source code into faithful machine-executable forms. The Object Management Group initiated the Unified Modeling Language 2.0 effort to address significant problems in earlier versions. While UML 2.0 improves over earlier versions in some aspects, its size and complexity can present a problem to users, tool developers, and OMG working groups charged with evolving the standard.

Keywords

Unified Modeling Language; distributed object management; OMG; Object Management Group; UML 2.0; Unified Modeling Language 2.0; complexity management mechanisms; model-driven development; Books; Collaboration; Runtime; Standards development; Unified modeling language; MDE tools; Model-driven engineering; Programming languages; Software development; System design; UML 2.0;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MC.2006.65

Filename

1597089