Model Driven Development with non-functional aspects

Model Driven Development (MDD) refers to the systematic use of models as primary engineering artifacts throughout a software development life cycle. In recently years, MDD has been increasingly employed to guide development with a focus on system modeling, code generation from models and white-box analysis of models. However, compositional system analysis regarding early Non-Functional Aspects/Properties (NFP) remains difficult. In this paper, we critically review the state-of-the-art of MDD in the context of non-functional aspects and shed some lights on the following two questions: 1) How to model Non-Functional Aspect/Property (NFP). The focus is to understand the different subtypes of a non-functional aspects and its compositional and emergent nature. 2) How models can be used for analyzing Non-functional Aspect/Property (NFP). This focuses on the analysis models in the form of reasoning frameworks (both qualitative and quantitative) behind each non-functional aspect.