Ten years of the INGENIAS methodology

Abstract

This chapter introduces a review of most of the work done in the INGENIAS methodology along 10 years. Few methodologies have been capable of evolving while keeping their initial premises. The key for INGENIAS survival has been an extreme adoption of Model Driven Development practises since its inception. The needs of its end users, the developers, have been gradually incorporated using those techniques. INGENIAS proposes a modelling language for Multi-agent Systems, recommendations for using it, tool support, and integration with some Software Engineering (SE) development processes. INGENIAS has its own support tools, which concern code generation, documentation, visual edition of the specification, simulation, testing, and installation. This chapter explains how INGENIAS was able to grow while keeping an updated tool support, introduces some important advances, and enumerates some of its challenges in the near future.