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Arbeitsbereich Business Informatics
Thomas Halmetschlager
Interactive Modeling for the Eclipse Modeling Framework
Studium: Masterstudium Medizinische Informatik
Betreuerin: O.Univ.Prof. Dr. Gertrude Kappel
The high complexity of modern software makes it unavoidable to develop
software with the help of graphical, model based editors. Software models
serve not only as documentation or as a rough system overview. They are
also the fundament to generate a executable system. The larger the
application the more persons are involved in the design and development
process. Simultaneous changes on a model are very common. With these
concurrent changes conflicts can occur. There is a need of interpersonal
communication to solve appearing questions and avoid misunderstandings.
Specially in the early stage of software development diversities in
interpretation can occur easily because the semantics of models can be
interpreted different. To avoid such problems the communication channels
within the team should be supported as much as possible. With good
communication it should be possible to conclude a consolidated solution of
the problem in a collaborative way. Within this thesis ways and means are
sought to enable interactive model-driven software development with the
Eclipse Modeling Framework. It turned out that there are already several
approach for this interactive development method. These budding
candidates where reviewed and analyzed. Unfortunately each of the tested
systems had some disadvantages or they were not mainly designed for
model-driven software development. When the analysis of various existing
approaches was finished, a list of requirements was created. The search for a
tool that matches the requirements as good as possible and that can be
extended easily was started and finished with an acceptable result. Therefore
the implementation part consists of a extension of a existing tool. The chosen
tool is CDO, Connected Data Objects, a plugin for Eclipse. CDO was selected
because it is the best match to our requirements. We think we found the
optimal candidate to develop a sustainable solution.
Tanja Mayerhofer
Breathing New Life into Models - An Interpreter-Based Approach for Executing
UML Models
Studium: Masterstudium Wirtschaftsinformatik
Betreuerin: O.Univ.Prof. Dr. Gertrude Kappel
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Over the past years Model-Driven Development (MDD) gained significant
popularity. With the usage of this paradigm the software engineering process
becomes more model-centric, i.e., models become the main artifact and
therewith the whole software development process relies on these models