Lightweight Realization of UML Ports for Safety-Critical Real-Time Embedded Software

Alper Tolga Kocataş, Mustafa Can, Ali Doğru

2016

Abstract

UML ports are widely used in the modeling of real-time software due to their advantages in flexibility and expressiveness. When realizing UML ports in object oriented languages, using objects for each port is one option. However, this approach causes runtime overhead and renders significant amount of additional generated code. To meet the performance constraints and decrease the costs of code reviews required in development of safety-critical real-time embedded software, more efficient approaches are required. In this article, we propose an approach, which introduces relatively less runtime overhead and results in smaller source code. A structural model defined with UML ports is transformed into a model that uses associations instead of objects to efficiently implement the UML port semantics with less lines of code. Achieved improvements and validation of the proposed approach is demonstrated by a case study; the design of an existing avionics software.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kocataş A., Can M. and Doğru A. (2016). Lightweight Realization of UML Ports for Safety-Critical Real-Time Embedded Software . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD, ISBN 978-989-758-168-7, pages 258-265. DOI: 10.5220/0005689602580265

in Bibtex Style

@conference{modelsward16,
author={Alper Tolga Kocataş and Mustafa Can and Ali Doğru},
title={Lightweight Realization of UML Ports for Safety-Critical Real-Time Embedded Software},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,},
year={2016},
pages={258-265},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005689602580265},
isbn={978-989-758-168-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,
TI - Lightweight Realization of UML Ports for Safety-Critical Real-Time Embedded Software
SN - 978-989-758-168-7
AU - Kocataş A.
AU - Can M.
AU - Doğru A.
PY - 2016
SP - 258
EP - 265
DO - 10.5220/0005689602580265