Context-aware Quality Model Driven Approach

Adel Alti (1) , A. Bookerram (1) , Makhlouf Derdour (2) , Philippe Roose (2)

1 Electronic Department, Faculty of Sciences
2 LIUPPA - Laboratoire Informatique de l'Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour

The explicit separation of functional and non-functional requirements is the main concern of the Contextual ARCHitecture Quality Requirement MetaModel (ContextualArchRQMM), aiming to well capturing resources-awareness and controlling quality at architecture level. This article defines extension of MDA called Context-aware Quality Model Driven Architecture (CQ-MDA) which can be used for quality control in pervasive computing environments. The proposed CQ-MDA approach based on ContextualArchRQMM, being an extension to the MDA, allows for considering quality and resources-awareness while conducting the design process. The main idea of presented extension consists in three abstractions levels: PIM (Platform Independent Model), CPIM (Contextual Platform Independent Model) and CPSM (Contextual Platform Specific Model). At the PIM level, a model is decomposed on two interrelated models: software architecture artifacts, which reflect functional requirements and quality model. At the CPIM level a simultaneous transformation of these two models with contextual information details are elaborated and then refined to a specific platform at the CPSM level. Such a procedure ensures that the transformation decisions should be based on the quality assessment of the created models.

Domaines: Autre [cs.OH]

Adel Alti, A. Bookerram, Makhlouf Derdour, Philippe Roose. Context-aware Quality Model Driven Approach. Notere 2010, May 2010, Tozeur, Tunisia. pp. 1-11. ⟨hal-00483083⟩