MDAQuA: A MDA based paradigm of Analytical Software Quality Assurance

Autoren: Dragan Macos, Roland Petrasch

Erschienen in: Proceedings BCI'07 Sofia/Bulgarien

Verlag: , 2007

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This work defines a model-based quality assurance processes based on OMG's Model Driven Architecture (MDA). The approach is called Model Driven Analytical Quality Assurance of Software (MDAQuA). The goal is to analyze software projects and products independent from programming and modeling languages making it also possible to integrate tools for project and quality management and software engineering. Firstly, a definition of the meta levels of MDAQuA for defining software artifacts that are to be analyzed is given. Second, the core language cl4AQuA which MDAQuA environment can analyze is defined. Third, we also defined transformation rules for mapping software model artifacts and programming languages into cl4AQuA. This approach allows transparency between MDA and Analytical Quality Assurance because it defines software development abstraction levels with MDA conformance and it maps them into cl4AQuA. In other words, all MDA levels can be handled with MDAQuA. In this way, we defined a design and programming language independent method for analytical Quality Assurance. Further, our work shows an application example of MDAQuA: Programming language independent calculation of software metrics.