Model-Based Analysis of Design Artefacts Applying an Annotation Concept

Abstract: In automotive software development, dependencies among process artefacts, i. e. requirements, implementation and test cases, are often not obvious. This causes time-intensive manual analysis efforts to incorporate changes during software evolu-tion. Therefore, automated tool support is essential to establish an efficient change management during the software life cycle. This paper presents a model-based concept which integrates the artefacts themselves as well as development-related meta information about them to establish both functional and process-related artefact analyses. To this end, we represent them as models in the Eclipse Modeling Framework and apply model transformations to support different kinds of automated analyses.