Metamodelling for Software Engineering

AvCesar Gonzalez-Perez,Brian Henderson-Sellers

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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Beskrivning

This book focuses on metamodelling as a discipline, exploring its foundations, techniques and results. It presents a comprehensive metamodel that covers process, product and quality issues under a common framework. Issues covered include: An explanation of what metamodelling is and why it is necessary in the context of software engineering.Basic concepts and principles of traditional metamodelling, and some existing results of this approach.Problems associated with traditional approaches to Metamodelling are discussed, alongside an exploration of possible solutions and alternative approaches.Advanced topics such as the extension of the object-oriented paradigm for metamodelling purposes or the foundations of powertype-based tool development will be studied.Finally, a comprehensive case study is introduced and developed, showing how to use many of the concepts explained in the previous chapters.This book provides a comprehensive conceptual framework for metamodelling and includes case studies and exercises which will demonstrate practical uses of metamodelling. For lecturers and educators, the book provides a layered repository of contents, starting from the basics of metamodelling in the first chapters, through specific issues such as trans-layer control or non-strict approaches, up to advanced topics such as universal powertyping or extensions to the object-oriented paradigm. The book also serves as an in-depth reference guide to features and technologies to consider when developing in-house software development methods or customising and adopting off-the-shelf ones. Software tool developers and vendors can benefit from the book by finding in it a comprehensive guide to the implementation of frameworks and toolsets for computer-aided software modelling and development.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-08-22
Mått:185 x 236 x 20 mm
Vikt:635 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:John Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN:9780470030363

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Programvaruutveckling inom Data och IT

Mer om författaren

Cesar Gonzalez-Perez is a senior researcher in the application of information technologies in the management of cultural heritage at the Spanish National Research Council and was previously a researcher in the Department of Software Engineering at the University of Technology, Sydney.Brian Henderson-Sellers is Director of the Centre for Object Technology Applications and Research and a professor at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is the author of more than a dozen books on object and agent technologies.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface viiChapter 1 – Software Development Methodologies and Metamodelling 11.1 What is a Methodology? 21.2 Metamodelling Needs 111.3 What is Metamodelling? 171.4 Summary 18References 19Chapter 2 – Modelling Infrastructure 212.1 Models and Modelling 212.2 Modelling Languages 262.3 Categorization Issues 362.4 The Relationship Between Models and Metamodels 422.5 Infrastructure 442.6 Summary 48References 48Chapter 3 – Using Metamodels 533.1 Metamodelling for Modelling Languages 533.2 Metamodelling for Processes 583.3 Metamodelling for Development Methodologies 623.4 Metamodelling for Model Transformation 653.5 Using a Metamodelling Infrastructure 683.6 Summary 72References 72Chapter 4 – Problems with Traditional Approaches and Current Products 754.1 Terminology and Culture Clashes 764.2 Linguistic and Ontological Metamodels 794.3 Process and Modelling Conflicts 834.4 The Quality Aspect 954.5 Solutions and Guidelines 1044.6 Summary 106References 106Chapter 5 – New Approaches to Metamodelling 1115.1 Deep Instantiation-Based Metamodelling 1125.2 Powertype-Based Metamodelling 1145.3 Comparison of Powertype Modelling and Potency 1265.4 Summary 129References 130Chapter 6 – Software Engineering Metamodel for Development Methodologies 1336.1 General Philosophy and Scope 1336.2 High-Level View 1416.3 Process Aspects 1446.4 Modelling Aspects – Product Classes 1486.5 People Aspects – Producer Classes 1516.6 Linking Process and Product Aspects 1536.7 Support Classes 1546.8 Classes in ISO/IEC 24744 1556.9 Extending the ISO/IEC 24744 Metamodel 1576.10 Summary 161References 161Chapter 7 – Creating and Using a Methodology Generated from the Metamodel 1637.1 Creating a Powertype-Based Methodology from its Metamodel 1657.2 The Endeavour Domain 1757.3 Summary 178References 179Appendix– Proposed Notation for ISO/IEC 24744 181Index 203