Adapting Software Development Process towards the Model Driven Architecture

Model driven architecture (MDA) is increasingly gaining the attention of both research communities and industry. MDA is a model-oriented software development paradigm, which can be applied to any software development methodology. MDA gives no guidelines in terms of the processes such as activities and phases, roles and responsibilities that are involved in the software development process. When an organization considers applying MDA-based software development process, it will face the lack of methodological guidelines. The aim of this paper is to customize typical heavyweight software development methodology (based on most widely used methodologies - rational unified process and Microsoft solutions framework) according to the MDA software development framework.