Evolution and maintenance of MDA applications

Abstract

The aim of MDA and its related concepts is to increase the quality and speed of system development by raising the level of abstraction, using modeling techniques, model transformation, and code generation. However, in order to take advantage in a professional development environment, some obstacles need to be overcome. This chapter considers the complete life cycle of MDA applications which starts with the set-up of a development environment. We put a special emphasis on the long-term perspective of applications developed using the MDA, including maintenance and enhancements of the application itself, as well as of the model transformation languages, templates, and tools. © 2005 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.