On a Tool-Supported Model-Based Approach for Building Architectures and Roadmaps: The MegaM@Rt2 Project Experience

Andrey Sadovykh (1, 2) , Wasif Afzal (3) , Dragos Truscan (4) , Pierluigi Pierini (5) , Hugo Bruneliere (6, 7) , Alessandra Bagnato (2) , Abel Gómez (8) , Jordi Cabot (9) , Orlando Avila-García (10)

1 Innopolis University
2 SOFTEAM
3 MDH - Mälardalen University
4 Åbo Akademi University [Turku]
5 INTECS
6 LS2N - équipe NaoMod - NaoMod - Nantes Software Modeling Group
7 IMT Atlantique - DAPI - Département Automatique, Productique et Informatique
8 UOC - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya [Barcelona]
9 ICREA - Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats = Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies
10 Atos

MegaM@Rt2 is a large European project dedicated to the provisioning of a model-based methodology and supporting tooling for system engineering at a wide scale. It notably targets the continuous development and runtime validation of such complex systems by developing a framework addressing a large set of engineering processes and application domains. This collab-orative project involves 27 partners from 6 different countries, 9 industrial case studies as well as over 30 different software tools from project partners (and others). In the context of the MegaM@Rt2 project, we elaborated on a pragmatic model-driven approach to specify the case study requirements, design the high-level architecture of a framework, perform the gap analysis between the industrial needs and current state-of-the-art, and plan a first framework development roadmap accordingly. The present paper describes the generic tool-supported approach that came out as a result. It also details its concrete application in the MegaM@Rt2 project. In particular, we discuss the collaborative modeling process, the requirement definition tooling , the approach for components modeling, as well as the traceability and document generation. In addition, we show how we used the proposed solution to specify the MegaM@Rt2 framework's conceptual tool components centered around three complementary tool sets: the MegaM@Rt2 System Engineering Tool Set, the MegaM@Rt2 Runtime Analysis Tool Set and the MegaM@Rt2 Model & Traceability Management Tool Set. The paper ends with a discussion on the practical lessons we have learned from this work so far.

Mots clés: Model-Driven Engineering; Requirement Engineering; Architecture; Roadmap; UML; SysML; Traceability; Document Generation; Modelio

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]; Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Andrey Sadovykh, Wasif Afzal, Dragos Truscan, Pierluigi Pierini, Hugo Bruneliere, et al.. On a Tool-Supported Model-Based Approach for Building Architectures and Roadmaps: The MegaM@Rt2 Project Experience. Microprocessors and Microsystems: Embedded Hardware Design , 2019, 71, pp.102848. ⟨10.1016/j.micpro.2019.102848⟩. ⟨hal-02265575⟩