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Automated Construction of Data Integration Solutions for Tool Chains

Authors:
Matthias Biehl
Jiarui Hong
Frédéric Loiret

Keywords: Domain Specific Modeling; Tool Integration; Prototyping; Higher-Order Model Transformation; Code Generation.

Abstract:
Modern software development relies increasingly on the orchestrated use of development tools in the form of seamless, automated tool chains. Tool chains are becoming complex software systems themselves, however, the efficient development of tool chains is a largely unsupported, manual engineering task. We propose both a domain specific modeling language for systematically specifying tool chains and generators for efficiently realizing the tool chain as software. Tool chain software consists of diverse components, such as service-oriented applications, models and model transformations, which we produce by different generative techniques. We study both the separate generative techniques and the dependencies between the generated artifacts to ensure that they can be integrated. We evaluate the approach both quantitatively and qualitatively, and show in a case study that the approach is practically applicable when building a tool chain for industrially relevant tools.

Pages: 102 to 111

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: November 18, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-230-1

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 18, 2012 to November 23, 2012