I. ABSTRACT II. BIOGRAPHY
Despite significant progress, the efficient construction of high-quality software is still challenging. As software continues to penetrate more parts of industry, business, and society, and is entrusted with increasingly complex tasks, these challenges will not diminish. With its emphasis on abstraction and automation, Model Driven Engineering (MDE) has the proven potential to deal with this complexity.
In this talk, we summarize our ongoing efforts to build comprehensive open source tool support for the use of MDE for the development of real-time embedded systems that are distributed, heterogeneous, and adaptive, and thus possess many of the features that Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and Internet of Things (IoT) applications are expected to have. Our starting point are short descriptions of UML-RT, a proven UML2 profile for real-time embedded systems, and PapyrusRT, an open source MDE tool for UML-RT. Then, our work on extending the capabilities of UML-RT and Papyrus-RT is discussed.
In particular, we show how UML-RT models can be 1) connected with external tools and components for the purposes of quality assurance (e.g., monitoring, animation, simulation), adaptation (e.g., steering), and construction of loosely coupled, heterogeneous systems (e.g., via IoT’s MQTT protocol), 2) debugged on the model-level in a platform-independent fashion, and 3) modified at runtime.
Next steps and open problems are sketched.