Integrating performance and reliability analysis in a non-functional MDA framework

Abstract

Integration of non-functional validation in Model-Driven Architecture is still far from being achieved, although it is ever more necessary in the development of modern software systems. In this paper we make a step ahead towards the adoption of such activity as a daily practice for software engineers all along the MDA process. We consider the Non-Functional MDA framework (NFMDA) that, beside the typical MDA model transformations for code generation, embeds new types of model transformations that allow the generation of quantitative models for non-functional analysis. We plug into the framework two methodologies, one for performance analysis and one for reliability assessment, and we illustrate the relationships between non-functional models and software models. For this aim, Computation Independent, Platform Independent and Platform Specific Models are also defined in the non-functional domains taken into consideration, that are performance and reliability. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.