Generación Automática de Software para Sistemas de Tiempo Real: Un Enfoque basado en Componentes, Modelos y Frameworks

  1. Diego Alonso 1
  2. Juan Ángel Pastor 1
  3. Pedro Sánchez 1
  4. Bárbara Álvarez 1
  5. Cristina Vicente-Chicote 1
  1. 1 Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena
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    Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena

    Cartagena, España

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Journal:
Revista iberoamericana de automática e informática industrial ( RIAI )

ISSN: 1697-7920

Year of publication: 2012

Volume: 9

Issue: 2

Pages: 170-181

Type: Article

DOI: 10.1016/J.RIAI.2012.02.010 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

Real-Time Systems have some characteristics that make them particularly sensitive to architectural decisions. The use of Frameworks and Components has proven effective in improving productivity and software quality, especially when combined with Software Product Line approaches. However, the results in terms of software reuse and standardization make the lack of portability of both the design and componentbased implementations clear. This article, based on the Model- Driven Software Development paradigm, presents an approach that separates the component-based description of real-time applications from their possible implementations on different platforms. This separation is supported by the automatic integration of the code obtained from the input models into object-oriented frameworks. The article also details the architectural decisions taken in the implementation of one of such frameworks, which is used as a case study to illustrate the proposed approach. Finally, a comparison with other alternative approaches is made in terms of development cost.

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Entre las líneas de investigación en marcha como continua-ción del trabajo se incluyen: desarrollar e integrar heurísticos para la distribución de actividades en hilos y el agrupamiento de las mismas, integrar herramientas de análisis de RTS así como reutilizar, en la medida de lo posible, los recursos proporcionados por frameworks robóticos como los descritos en la Sección 2, implementar un asistente para la selección y configuración de las características de los frameworks, extender el catálogo de frameworks disponible y, por último, desarrollar nuevos casos de estudio para demostrar la integración de frameworks complementarios, como interfaces gráficas, comu-nicaciones, etc.

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