A Process and Retrospection on Creating a Domain Model for Avionic Software

ADAGE is a project to define and realize a domain-specific software architecture (DSSA) technology for assisting the development of avionics software. The central concept of DSSA is the use of software system generators that implement component-based models of software systems in the target domain [SEI90]. We have developed a domain model for avionics software using the GenVoca domain modeling constructs. In this paper, we explain the procedure that we used, we review our initial goals and examine what we were (and were not) able to accomplish. Lessons for future domain modeling efforts are presented. Keywords: ADAGE, DSSA, avionics software, software building-blocks, domain modeling. ** This effort is sponsored by the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in cooperation with the US Air Force Wright Laboratory Avionics Directorate under contract F33615-91-C-1788. - 2 - 1. Introduction The goals of ADAGE (Avionics Domain Architecture Generating Environment) are t..