ENHANCING UML PORTS AND CONNECTORS TO INCREASE THE REUSABILITY AND PERFORMANCE OF AVIONICS SOFTWARE

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Kocataş, Alper Tolga

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Model-driven software development (MDSD) techniques have evolved vastly over the recent decades. MDSD aims to raise the abstraction level, allowing developers to produce accurate designs which are also easier to verify. The focus of this research is on developing methods in MDSD that can be utilized in software development. In the scope of this research, we first present a method for enriching the UML connectors with behavioral specifications for the exogenous coordination of the components. The aim is to free the components from the coordination responsibility, increasing their reusability. Second, we present an efficient, lightweight approach for the realization of the UML ports in object-oriented programming languages. The approach results in improved runtime performance and a significant decrease in code size. The first approach is validated using example connectors and cases from real-life large-scale avionics software. The second approach has been field-tested in actual flying avionics software for the last six years and has been proven to be successful.

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ALF, behavior, connector, fUML, model transformation, port, QVT, UML

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/101858

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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A. T. Kocataş, “ENHANCING UML PORTS AND CONNECTORS TO INCREASE THE REUSABILITY AND PERFORMANCE OF AVIONICS SOFTWARE,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2023.