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Computer Aided architectural analysis of Real-Time Systems

Obiettivo

Building component-based software applications is proposed as a way to reduce development time and costs, while maintaining a high quality in the applications. For components to collaborate in an application, they need to interact and behave according to rules set by the application architecture. The CARTS project proposes to build a tool to support the description of real-time software architectures. It will be based on an architectural style that was designed specifically to model time-critical component-based architectures, taking into account the key problems on that domain, and supporting the analytical evaluation of several quality factors (e.g. time responsiveness). Several European industrial companies that embed real-time software in their equipment will evaluate the tool in real projects, and provide feed-back to refine it, in a two step process.

Objectives:
The project objective is to develop a Computer Aided Architectural Analysis (CARTS)tool environment supporting a real-time component-based architectural style and to demonstrate that it can be profitably used by equipment manufacturers that embedding them real-time software for reducing development time and costs, while maintaining the quality and performances. CARTS tool should allow them: to design software architectures based on components, using a systematic reuse approach; to evaluate performance and other quality parameters of time-critical applications, at the architectural design phase, and to compare alternative architectural solutions; and to specify, evaluate and select software components based on its fitting into an architecture and on pre-determined quality attributes. The project will also start a convergence process for a standard way of describing time-critical software architectures based on coarse-grain reusable components.

Work description:
The tool will be based on an architectural style that has been specifically designed to cope with the problems encountered when designing real-time software architectures based on component elements, and to support analytical evaluation methods of key quality factors for real-time systems. A tool, or tool environment, will be developed to support in a friendly and easy-to-use way the common activities performed by software engineers when designing architectures for real-time systems based on components. It will provide utilities for evaluating time response and other quality factors. It should help maximise the ease of reuse of well-characterised and architecturally bound components. The tool will incorporate the mechanisms required for integrating easily with other tools and environments required in product-families software building processes. The tool will be built in two steps. In the first one, a basic tool will be provided to the evaluating users, in order to start understanding the interaction of the tool on an architectural design activity, and assessing its suitability to support the process. The conclusions obtained in the evaluation will be fed back to the developers, and used for building the second version. That last version will undergo a complete evaluation process by applying it to the architectural analysis and assessment of several real cases, one at each of the validator's premises. The project will build a group of potential users, and will propel it to become a cluster of entities involved in real-time software development. The main objective will be to start a convergence process aiming at obtaining a widely accepted set of methods and techniques for designing the architecture of time-critical software.

Milestones:
Initial Specification: a preliminary specification including the architectural style definition and the methods used to evaluate quality factors. First tool prototype: initial tool prototype available, implementing the main functionality required to model software architecture. Specification review: results from the first evaluation by users. Final results: final tool available. Cluster of time-critical software companies started.

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TCP SISTEMAS E INGENIERIA, S.L.
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