Automatic enforcement of architectural design rules
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 2
Model-driven engineering techniques for the development of multi-agent systems
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
An Approach for Modeling Architectural Design Rules in UML and its Application to Embedded Software
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Proceedings of the 5th India Software Engineering Conference
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A basic premise of Model Driven Development (MDD) is to capture all important design information in a set of formal or semi-formal models which are then automatically kept consistent by tools. The concept however is still relatively immature and there is little by way of empirically validated guidelines. In this paper we report on the use of MDD on a significant real-world project over several years. Our research found the MDD approach to be deficient in terms of modelling architectural design rules. Furthermore, the current body of literature does not offer a satisfactory solution as to how architectural design rules should be modelled. As a result developers have to rely on time-consuming and error-prone manual practices to keep a system consistent with its architecture. To realise the full benefits of MDD it is important to find ways of formalizing architectural design rules which then allow automatic enforcement of the architecture on the system model. Without this, architectural enforcement will remain a bottleneck in large MDD projects.