Goal-Driven Pattern-Based Model Transformation

• Main Authors: Yong-Yi Fanjiang, 范姜永益
• Other Authors: None
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/a2twhn

博士 === 國立中央大學 === 資訊工程研究所 === 94 === Recently, the growing popularity of model driven frameworks and methodologies, as well as the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) initiated by Object Management Group (OMG) has implied an increasing focus on model transformation. Meanwhile, the impact of design patterns on software quality has attracted a gradual attention since design patterns encapsulate valuable knowledge to resolve design problems and improve design quality. As an attempt towards the investigation of applying goals, design patterns, and XML technology to realize the model transformation, we proposed, in this dissertation, a goal-driven model transformation by applying design patterns to transform an analysis model into its corresponding design model with an emphasis on the non-functional requirements and thus construct the corresponding code templates through a set of transformation rules. The use of goals makes it easier to transform the functional and non-functional requirements into the software models, and derives the candidate design patterns to help satisfy non-functional requirements for resolving the design problems and improving software quality. Furthermore, we developed a fuzzy object oriented modeling (FOOM) schema based on XML to specify requirements specifications and incorporated the notion of stereotype to facilitate the modeling of imprecise requirements. FOOM schema is also transformed into a set of application programming interface(APIs) in an automatic manner. A schema graph is proposed to serve as an intermediate representation for the structure of FOOM schema to bridge the FOOM schema and APIs for content validation and data access. We also developed the transformation rule schema based on the XML schema to specify the transformation rules from FOOM into its corresponding code templates and constructed the code generator in a semi-automatic manner by using the generated APIs.