Today, reliable software systems are the basis of any business or company. The continuous further development of those systems is the central component in software evolution. It requires a huge amount of time-, man power- as well as financial resources. The challenges are size, seniority and heterogeneity of those software systems. Christian Wagner addresses software evolution: the inherent problems and uncertainties in the process. He presents a model-driven method which leads to a synchronization between source code and design. As a result the model layer will be the central part in further evolution and source code becomes a by-product. For the first time a model-driven procedure for maintenance and migration of software systems is described. The procedure is composed of a model-driven reengineering and a model-driven migration phase. The application and effectiveness of the procedure are confirmed with a reference implementation applied to four exemplary systems.

Contents

• Theoretical Context
• Description of the Methodology
• Case Study Applications
• Evaluation of Results

Target Groups

• Researchers and students in the field of computer science, information management and commercial information technology
• Practitioners in the field of software development, IT-Managers, CIOs

The Author

In 2012, Dr.-Ing. Christian Wagner finished his PhD thesis at the University of Potsdam, Chair of Service and Software Engineering. Currently, he is working as System-Analyst in the automotive sector.