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Model-Driven Performance Analysis
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures (QoSA 2008) (2008)
  • Gabriel A. Moreno, Software Engineering Institute
  • Paulo Merson, Software Engineering Institute
Abstract

Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) is an approach to develop software systems by creating models and applying automated transformations to them to ultimately generate the implementation for a target platform. Although the main focus of MDE is on the generation of code, it is also necessary to support the analysis of the designs with respect to quality attributes such as performance. To complement the model-to-implementation path of MDE approaches, an MDE tool infrastructure should provide what we call model-driven analysis. This paper describes an approach to model-driven analysis based on reasoning frameworks. In particular, it describes a performance reasoning framework that can transform a design into a model suitable for analysis of real-time performance properties with different evaluation procedures including rate monotonic analysis and simulation. The concepts presented in this paper have been implemented in the PACC Starter Kit, a development environment that supports code generation and analysis from the same models.

Keywords
  • MDA,
  • MDE,
  • model-driven,
  • performance,
  • analysis,
  • architecture
Disciplines
Publication Date
October, 2008
Citation Information
Gabriel A. Moreno and Paulo Merson. "Model-Driven Performance Analysis" Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures (QoSA 2008) (2008)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/gabriel_moreno/14/