Date of Award

12-1992

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science

Department

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

First Advisor

David R. Luginbuhl, PhD

Abstract

This research investigated technology which enables sophisticated users to specify, generate, and maintain application software in domain-oriented terms. To realize this new technology, a development environment, called Architect, was designed and implemented. Using canonical formal specifications of domain objects, Architect rapidly composes these specifications into a software application and executes a prototype of that application as a means to demonstrate is correctness before any programming language specific code is generated. This thesis investigated populating and manipulating the formal object base required by Architect. This object base is built using a domain- specific language (DSL) which serves as an interface between the user and a domain model. The domain model describes primitive domain object classes and composition rules and is formalized via a domain modeling language. The packaging of the objects into components is defined by an architecture model which was part of a separate thesis. The Software Refinery environment was used to develop a methodology for defining DSLs for Architect and for manipulating the resulting populated object base.

AFIT Designator

AFIT-GCS-ENG-92D-13

DTIC Accession Number

ADA259018

Comments

The author's Vita page is omitted.

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