Authors:
César Cuevas Cuesta
;
Patricia López Martínez
and
José M. Drake
Affiliation:
University of Cantabria, Spain
Keyword(s):
MDE, Meta-modelling, Development Environments, Process Engineering.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Business and Social Applications
;
Domain-Specific Modeling and Domain-Specific Languages
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Frameworks for Model-Driven Development
;
Languages, Tools and Architectures
;
Methodologies, Processes and Platforms
;
Model-Driven Software Development
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Software Engineering
;
Software Process Modeling, Enactment and Execution
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Workflow Management Systems
Abstract:
This paper presents a strategy to facilitate the customization of MDSE software development environments,
which aims at providing the software engineers who design, implement and maintain those environments
with capacity to automate the generation of tools supporting new development processes. A generic
conception for the design of software development environments based on the MDSE paradigm, called
MDDE (Model-Driven Development Environment), has been defined as basis of the proposed strategy. In
MDDE, the definition of the processes that determine the functionality of an environment as well as their
options regarding interaction, supervision and control by the users are completely formulated as models. To
support this capability, the MDDE reference model includes a meta-model that formalizes such models. A
sample implementation called MDDE-MinMAST2 is presented for illustrative purposes.