Model-Driven Development of Aspect-Oriented Software Architectures

The work presented in this thesis of master is an approach that takes advantage of the Model-Driven Development approach for developing aspect-oriented software architectures. A complete MDD support for the PRISMA approach is defined by providing code generation, verification and reusability properties.Pérez Benedí, J. (2007). Model-Driven Development of Aspect-Oriented Software Architectures. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/12451Archivo delegad

Conceptualizing a framework for cyber-physical systems of systems development and deployment

ABSTRACT Cyber-physical systems (CPS) refer to the next generation of embedded ICT systems that are interconnected, collaborative and that provide users and businesses with a wide range of smart applications and services. Software in CPS applications ranges from small systems to large systems, aka. Systems of Systems (SoS), such as smart grids and cities. CPSoS require managing massive amounts of data, being aware of their emerging behavior, and scaling out to progressively evolve and add new systems. Cloud computing supports processing and storing massive amounts of data, hosting and delivering services, and configuring selfprovisioned resources. Therefore, cloud computing is the natural candidate to solve CPSoS needs. However, the diversity of platforms and the low-level cloud programming models make difficult to find a common solution for the development and deployment of CPSoS. This paper presents the architectural foundations of a cloud-centric framework for automating the development and deployment of CPSoS service applications to converge towards a common open service platform for CPSoS applications. This framework relies on the well-known qualities of the microservices architecture style, the autonomic computing paradigm, and the model-driven software development approach. Its implementation and validation is on-going at two European and national projects

PRISMA: Model-driven development of aspect-oriented software architectures

This summary presents a methodology for supporting the development of AOSAs following the MDD paradigm. This new methodology is called PRISMA and allows the code generation from models which specify functional and non-functional requirements

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An Aspect-Oriented Approach for Supporting Autonomic Reconfiguration of Software Architectures

[EN] The increasing complexity of current software systems is encouraging the development of self-managed software architectures, i.e. systems capable of reconfiguring their structure at runtime to fulfil a set of goals. Several approaches have covered different aspects of their development, but some issues remain open, such as the maintainability or the scalability of self-management subsystems. Centralized approaches, like self-adaptive architectures, offer good maintenance properties but do not scale well for large systems. On the contrary, decentralized approaches, like self-organising architectures, offer good scalability but are not maintainable: Reconfiguration specifications are spread and often tangled with functional specifications. In order to address these issues, this paper presents an aspect-oriented autonomic reconfiguration approach where: (1) each subsystem is provided with self-management properties so it can evolve itself and the components that it is composed of; (2) self-management concerns are isolated and encapsulated into aspects, thus improving its reuse and maintenance. Povzetek: Predstavljen je pristop s samo-preoblikovanjem programske arhitekture.This work has been partially supported by the Spanish Department of Science and Technology under the National Program for Research, Development and Innovation project MULTIPLE (TIN2009-13838), and by the Conselleria d'Educació i Ciència (Generalitat Valenciana) under the contract BFPI06/227.Costa Soria, C.; Pérez Benedí, J.; Carsí Cubel, JÁ. (2011). An Aspect-Oriented Approach for Supporting Autonomic Reconfiguration of Software Architectures. Informatica. 35(1):15-27. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/31147S152735

An Aspect-Oriented Approach for Supporting Autonomic Reconfiguration of Software Architectures

[EN] The increasing complexity of current software systems is encouraging the development of self-managed software architectures, i.e. systems capable of reconfiguring their structure at runtime to fulfil a set of goals. Several approaches have covered different aspects of their development, but some issues remain open, such as the maintainability or the scalability of self-management subsystems. Centralized approaches, like self-adaptive architectures, offer good maintenance properties but do not scale well for large systems. On the contrary, decentralized approaches, like self-organising architectures, offer good scalability but are not maintainable: Reconfiguration specifications are spread and often tangled with functional specifications. In order to address these issues, this paper presents an aspect-oriented autonomic reconfiguration approach where: (1) each subsystem is provided with self-management properties so it can evolve itself and the components that it is composed of; (2) self-management concerns are isolated and encapsulated into aspects, thus improving its reuse and maintenance. Povzetek: Predstavljen je pristop s samo-preoblikovanjem programske arhitekture.This work has been partially supported by the Spanish Department of Science and Technology under the National Program for Research, Development and Innovation project MULTIPLE (TIN2009-13838), and by the Conselleria d'Educació i Ciència (Generalitat Valenciana) under the contract BFPI06/227.Costa Soria, C.; Pérez Benedí, J.; Carsí Cubel, JÁ. (2011). An Aspect-Oriented Approach for Supporting Autonomic Reconfiguration of Software Architectures. Informatica. 35(1):15-27. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/31147S152735

Model-Driven Development of Aspect-Oriented Software Architectures

[EN] The Model-Driven Development (MDD) paradigm has become widely spread in the last few years due to being based on models instead of source code, and using automatic generation techniques to obtain the final software product. Until now, the most mature methodologies that have been proposed to develop software following MDD are mainly based on functional requirements by following the Object-Oriented Paradigm. Therefore, mature MDD methodologies are required for supporting the code generation from models that specify non-functional requirements. The Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) approach was created to provide explicit mechanisms for developing non-functional requirements through reusable elements called aspects. Aspect-Oriented Software Architectures (AOSA) emerged to deal with the design of both, functional requirements and non-functional requirements, which opened an important challenge in the software engineering field: the definition of a methodology for supporting the development of AOSAs following the MDD paradigm. This new methodology should allow the code generation from models which specify functional and non-functional requirements. This paper presents a mature approach, called PRISMA, which deals with this challenge. Therefore, this contribution takes a step forward in the area presenting in detail the PRISMA MDD process, which has been applied to generate the code of several real applications of the tele-operated robotics domain. PRISMA MDD approach provides complete support for the development of technology-independent AOSAs, which can be compiled from high-level, aspect-oriented architectural models into different technology platforms and languages following an MDD process. This contribution illustrates how to apply the PRISMA MDD approach through the modelling framework that has been developed to support it, and a case study of a tele-operated robot that has been completely developed using this approach. Finally, the results obtained from the application of PRISMA MDD process to develop applications of the tele-operation domain are analyzed in terms of code generation.The work reported here has been partially sponsored by the Spanish MEC projects (DSDM TIN2008-00889-E and MULTIPLE TIN2009-13838), and MICINN (INNOSEP TIN2009-13849)Pérez Benedí, J.; Ramos Salavert, I.; Carsí Cubel, JÁ.; Costa Soria, C. (2013). Model-Driven Development of Aspect-Oriented Software Architectures. Journal of Universal Computer Science. 19(10):1433-1473. https://doi.org/10.3217/jucs-019-10-143314331473191

Prisma: aspect-oriented software architectures

Hoy en día, la complejidad de los sistemas software y la gran relevancia que han adquirido los requisitos no funcionales son retos que han de abordarse durante el proceso de desarrollo software. En los últimos años, estas propiedades han provocado un gran incremento en el tiempo y el personal necesario para llevar a cabo los procesos de desarrollo y mantenimiento del software. Por ello, existe un gran interés en mejorar dichos procesos. Esta tesis presenta un nuevo enfoque de desarrollo para sistemas software complejos. Dicho enfoque, llamado PRISMA, da soporte a estos nuevos retos y permite satisfacer la elevada competitividad del mercado. El enfoque PRISMA se ha materializado en un marco de trabajo formado por un modelo, un lenguaje, una metodología y un prototipo de herramienta CASE (Computer-Aided Software Engineering). El modelo de PRISMA combina dos aproximaciones para definir arquitecturas software: el Desarrollo de Software Basado en Componentes (DSBC) y el Desarrollo de Software Orientado a Aspectos (DSOA). Las principales aportaciones del modelo es la manera en la que integra ambas aproximaciones para obtener sus ventajas y su lenguaje formal. PRISMA tiene en cuenta los requisitos no funcionales desde las primeras etapas del ciclo de vida software y mejora su reutilización y el mantenimiento. Todo ello gracias a la descomposición que realiza de los sistemas software utilizando dos conceptos diferentes: aspectos y elementos arquitectónicos (componentes y conectores). PRISMA proporciona un Lenguaje de Descripción de Arquitecturas Orientado a Aspectos (LDAOA) formal para la especificación de arquitecturas software orientadas a aspectos. El LDAOA de PRISMA es independiente de cualquier tecnología y está basado en lenguajes formales para evitar la ambigüedad y poder aplicar técnicas de generación automática de código. La metodología de PRISMA apuesta por el desarrollo de software siguiendo el Paradigma de la Prototipación Automática mediante la aplicación del ePérez Benedí, J. (2006). Prisma: aspect-oriented software architectures [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/1928Palanci

Accessibility variability model: the UTPL MOOC case study

Several approaches to define Variability Models (VM) of non-functional requirements or quality attributes have been proposed. However, these approaches have focused on specific quality attributes rather than more general non-functional aspects established by standards such as ISO/IEC 25010 for software evaluation and quality. Thus, developing specific software products by selecting features and at the same time measuring the level of compliance with a stan-dard/guideline is a challenge. In this work, we present the definition of an accessibility VM based on the web content accessibility guides(WCAG) 2.1 W3C recommendation, to obtain a quantitative measure to improve or construct specific SPL products that require to be accessibility-aware. This paper is specially focused on illustrating the experience of measuring the accessibility in a software productline (SPL) in order to check if it is viable measuring products and recommending improvements in terms of features before addressing the construction of accessibility-aware products. The adoption of the VM accessibility has been putted into practice through a pilot case study, the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) initiative of the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja. The conduction of this pilot case study has allowed us to illustrate how it is possible to model and measure the accessibility in SPL using accessibility VM, as well as to recommend accessibility configuration improvements for the construction of new or updated MOOC platforms