Exploring Tool Integration for Continuous Software Engineering with the OSLC and Eclipse Lyo
Abstract
Software tools are used to support teams throughout the software development lifecycle. Yet, fully automated integrated environments are rarelly observed in the industry. In this sense, many approaches have been proposed for Continuous Software Engineering (CSE), in special those integrating tools with the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) standard. This paper reports on our experience through an exploratory study on a technology for modeling integration solutions, namelly Eclipse Lyo, and the respective generation of OSLC interfaces and adapters. As a result, we derived well defined steps in a metodology supporting the OSLC toolchain development process. The results are interesting and suggest that Eclipse Lyo provides some benefits to software engineers when configuring integration solutions in CSE contexts.
Keywords:
Tool Integration, Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration, OSLC, Model-Driven Development
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Frantz, R. Z., Corchuelo, R., and Roos-Frantz, F. (2016). On the design of a maintainable software development kit to implement integration solutions. Journal of Systems and Software, 111(1):89–104
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Leitner, A., Herbst, B., and Mathijssen, R. (2016). Lessons learned from tool integration with oslc. In Dregvaite, G. and Damasevicius, R., editors, Information and Software Technologies, pages 242–254, Cham. Springer International Publishing.
Marko, N., Leitner, A., Herbst, B., and Wallner, A. (2015). Combining xtext and oslc for integrated model-based requirements engineering. In 2015 41st Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, pages 143–150.
Messerschmitt, D. G. (2005). Software Ecosystem: Understanding an Indispensable Technology and Industry (The MIT Press). The MIT Press.
B. D., Mazzocca, N., Peron, A., Pisani, G., Velardi, L., and Vittorini, V. (2020). An oslc-based environment for system-level functional testing of ertms/etcs controllers. Journal of Systems and Software, 161:110478.
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Runeson, P. and Host, M. (2008). Guidelines for conducting and reporting case study research in software engineering. Empirical Software Engineering, 14(2):131.
Wohlin, C., Runeson, P., Host, M., Ohlsson, M. C., Regnell, B., and Wesslën, A. (2012). Experimentation in software engineering. Springer Science & Business Media, Berlin, Heidelberg, Dordrecht & New York City.
Zhang, W. and Møller-Pedersen, B. (2014). Modeling of tool integration resources with oslc support. In 2014 2nd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development (MODELSWARD), pages 99–110.
Published
2021-12-01
How to Cite
FERREIRA, Bruno Marcelo Soares; BASSO, Fábio.
Exploring Tool Integration for Continuous Software Engineering with the OSLC and Eclipse Lyo. In: REGIONAL SCHOOL OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (ERES), 5. , 2021, Evento Online.
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Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2021
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p. 109-118.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/eres.2021.18456.
