Model-Driven-Development-Based Stepwise Software Development Process for Wireless Sensor Networks

Author

Tei, Kenji ; Shimizu, Ryo ; Fukazawa, Yoshiaki ; Honiden, Shinichi

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Inf., Tokyo, Japan

Volume

45

Issue

4

fYear

2015

fDate

Apr-15

Firstpage

675

Lastpage

687

Abstract

To meet future demands for wireless sensor network (WSN) software, both experts and average software developers should be involved in WSN software development. However, WSN software development is difficult for the average software developer because data processing-related design and network-related design are tangled in the software. Here, we propose a software development process for WSN software by stepwise refinement. Our process enables stepwise refinement to separately address data processing-related and network-related concerns, reuse of well-defined designs, and implementations for network-related concerns prepared by the experts, and perform model-driven development to obtain source codes from models by model transformations. Additionally, we used case studies using actual WSN software development and user studies to evaluate how our proposed process can support actual WSN software development.

Keywords

software engineering; source code (software); telecommunication computing; wireless sensor networks; WSN; data processing-related design; model-driven-development-based stepwise software development process; network-related design; source codes; stepwise refinement; wireless sensor network software; DSL; Data models; Data processing; Monitoring; Software; Unified modeling language; Wireless sensor networks; Domain-specific languages (DSLs); model-driven development (MDD); software development process; wireless sensor networks (WSNs);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

2168-2216

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TSMC.2014.2360506

Filename

6928496