Assessing the State-of-Practice of Model-Based Engineering in the Embedded Systems Domain
Journal article, 2014

Model-Based Engineering (MBE) aims at increasing the effectiveness of engineering by using models as key artifacts in the development process. While empirical studies on the use and the effects of MBE in industry exist, there is only little work targeting the embedded systems domain. We contribute to the body of knowledge with a study on the use and the assessment of MBE in that particular domain. We collected quantitative data from 112 subjects, mostly professionals working with MBE, with the goal to assess the current State of Practice and the challenges the embedded systems domain is facing. Our main findings are that MBE is used by a majority of all participants in the embedded systems domain, mainly for simulation, code generation, and documentation. Reported positive effects of MBE are higher quality and improved reusability. Main shortcomings are interoperability difficulties between MBE tools, high training effort for developers and usability issues.

State-of-Practice

Model-Driven Engineering

Embedded Systems

Model-Based Engineering

Empirical Study

Industry

Modeling

Author

Grischa Liebel

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Software Engineering (Chalmers)

N. Marko

Virtual Vehicle Research Center

Matthias Tichy

University of Gothenburg

A. Leitner

Virtual Vehicle Research Center

Jörgen Hansson

University of Skövde

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

03029743 (ISSN) 16113349 (eISSN)

Vol. 8767 166-182

Subject Categories

Software Engineering

DOI

10.1007/978-3-319-11653-2_11

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