2019
Authors
Araujo, JM; Couto, R; Campos, JC;
Publication
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2019 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GRAPHICS AND INTERACTION (ICGI 2019)
Abstract
The IVY Workbench is a tool that supports the modeling and formal verification of interactive systems. The tool features a set of plugins that support the modeling and analysis process, including a models editor, a properties checker, and a models animator. The latter, allows visualizing and interacting with a model, but does not support associating it with a prototype of the system. Interaction with the model facilitates its validation by modelling experts. It does not, however, facilitate communication with domain experts and users, to whom a prototype would be a more effective means of communication. This article presents the work done to remedy this gap in IVY. The article details the preliminary research carried out, architectural decisions and the obtained end result.
2012
Authors
Couto, R; Ribeiro, AN; Campos, JC;
Publication
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2012 IEEE 35TH SOFTWARE ENGINEERING WORKSHOP (SEW 2012)
Abstract
The ever increasing number of platforms and languages available to software developers means that the software industry is reaching high levels of complexity. Model Driven Architecture (MDA) presents a solution to the problem of improving software development processes in this changing and complex environment. MDA driven development is based on models definition and transformation. Design patterns provide a means to reuse proven solutions during development. Identifying design patterns in the models of a MDA approach helps their understanding, but also the identification of good practices during analysis. However, when analyzing or maintaining code that has not been developed according to MDA principles, or that has been changed independently from the models, the need arises to reverse engineer the models from the code prior to patterns' identification. The approach presented herein consists in transforming source code into models, and infer design patterns from these models. Erich Gamma's cataloged patterns provide us a starting point for the pattern inference process. MapIt, the tool which implements these functionalities is described.
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