Annual Report 2010 - Fachgruppe Informatik an der RWTH Aachen ...

Toolchain Integration in Requirements Engineering
A. Haber and B. Rumpe
In cooperation with VOLKSWAGEN AG
Main task is the development of a strategy and tool support for the migration of requirements
data from a legacy requirements system at VOLKSWAGEN AG in Wolfsburg. The project is
split into two phases. In the first phase the legacy requirements system will be inspected to
gather a detailed insight into the system, its data and data-model. In addition transformation
strategies are developed to migrate data with a possibly heterogeneous data-model to a system
with a fixed data-model without losing information. Also strategies for the transformation of
possibly incompatible concepts have to be designed.
Task in the second phase is the development of a software tool that implements the developed
strategies as well as the documentation of the developed migration methodology.
VIRE
T. Gülke, H. Rendel, and B. Rumpe
A. Donners and A. Horst
The number of traditionally engineered websites is constantly decreasing, being replaced by
complex web applications which are capable of bringing a whole new experience of
interactivity to the user. The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) enables developers to abstract from
plain JavaScript and HTML to standard JAVA, making development significantly easier and
hence to apply more complex, state of the art architectures. VIRE is a framework based on
GWT which is specifically designed to support the development of web-based editors,
reducing development time by supplying infrastructure like a command-based Undo/Redomechanism
or the integration of the MVC-pattern. The framework’s domain is the
transformation of usually non-formal documents (like Microsoft PowerPoint or Word) being
used by a large number of people in a process into a formal web-application which allows
editing the same document layout they are used to.
One specific web-editor being built upon VIRE is ProcEd, a process editor developed for and
used by the VOLKSWAGEN AG. ProcEd replaces a large set of PowerPoint slides
representing a specific process which is currently being updated and therefore needs constant
work on by different groups of people.
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