Domain modeling methods and environments

Abstract

A project is presented that supports software engineering lifecycles, methods, and environments in aiding software reuse at the requirements and design phases of the software lifecycle, in addition to the coding phase. A reuse-oriented software lifecycle, the Evolutionary Domain Life Cycle (EDLC), has been proposed. EDL is a highly iterative lifecycle that takes an application domain perspective allowing the development of families of systems. Focus is on the domain analysis and specification phase of the EDLC for developing an application domain model, which captures the similarities and variations of the domain.