Specification and Implementation of SPEM4MDE, a metamodel for MDE software processes

摘要

It is widely accepted that MDE is a novel and important approach for building complex systems. This fact forces many organizations to transform their software development processes into model-driven ones. While model-driven development processes - called MDE processes - have started to appear, a tool-supported Process Modeling Language (PML) for describing, enacting and evolving such processes is still lacking. In this article, we propose a PML that combines SPEM 2.0, UML 2.2 and MOF 2.0 QVT concepts. We extend these concepts for the MDE domain and define the behavior of MDE process models in terms of UML state-machines. The result is a language that can be used to define a MDE process, and thanks to its behavioral semantics, to guide the execution of projects based on such a process. To evaluate and validate our approach, we have developed a prototype under the TOPCASED environment.