MDA-Veritas: uma arquitetura MDA estendida para transformações de sistemas concorrentes preservadoras de semântica.

Abstract

MDA is a software development trend that aims to shift the focus and efforts of the current development methodologies. The implementation method changes from only code production to the usage of models, metamodels and transformations. Currently, this approach has been diversified with the inclusion of new paradigms that go beyond the only use of the MDA standards, as originally proposed. However, the MDA architecture still suffers from the lack of formalization of its artifacts and processes, leading to several sorts of questions. An important example of question is about the high ambiguity levels of models and transformations, originating problems of low reliability. One of the main consequences of this problem is the fact that still there is no way to ensure that MDA transformations are semantics preserving and neither the involved models are formal enough to allow the use of equivalence verification techniques, criticizing the effectiveness of this approach. This thesis proposes to deal with this problem by incorporating well consolidated formal methods techniques in the MDA architecture, having as specific context the software development for embedded systems with concurrent features. We propose extensions to part of the MDA architecture in order to construct semantic models to represent static and dynamic aspects, both essentials in the semantics of the involved models in the transformations and in the verification mechanisms of these models. With this, we achieve the verification of equivalence in transformations with models of concurrent systems. Asevaluationofthework,conceptualproofs, case studies and an experimental evaluation following the GQM approach, involving partners in the academy and industry, were implmented and evaluated. We verify models equivalence at the level of PIM-to-PIM, PSM-to-PSM and PIM-to-PSM transformations with models of concurrent systems described and inPetri nets and some of its extensions.