by Rick Rabiser, Jürgen Thanhofer-Pilisch, Michael Vierhauser, Paul Grünbacher, Alexander Egyed
Abstract:
Complex software-intensive systems are often described as systems of systems (SoS) due to their heterogeneous architectural elements. As SoS behavior is often only understandable during operation, runtime monitoring is needed to detect deviations from requirements. Today, while diverse monitoring approaches exist, most do not provide what is needed to monitor SoS, e.g., support for dynamically defining and deploying diverse checks across multiple systems. In this paper we report on our experiences of developing, applying, and evolving an approach for monitoring an SoS in the domain of industrial automation software, that is based on a domain-specific language (DSL). We first describe our initial approach to dynamically define and check constraints in SoS at runtime and then motivate and describe its evolution based on requirements elicited in an industry collaboration project. We furthermore describe solutions we have developed to support the evolution of our approach, i.e., a code generation approach and a framework to automate testing the DSL after changes. We evaluate the expressiveness and scalability of our new DSL-based approach using an industrial SoS. We also discuss lessons we learned. Our results show that while developing a DSL-based approach is a good solution to support industrial users, one must prepare the approach for evolution, by making it extensible and adaptable to future scenarios. Particularly, support for automated (re-)generation of tools and code after changes and automated testing are essential.
Reference:
Developing and evolving a DSL-based approach for runtime monitoring of systems of systems (Rick Rabiser, Jürgen Thanhofer-Pilisch, Michael Vierhauser, Paul Grünbacher, Alexander Egyed), In Autom. Softw. Eng., volume 25, 2018.
Bibtex Entry:
@Article{Rabiser2018,
author = {Rick Rabiser and Jürgen Thanhofer-Pilisch and Michael Vierhauser and Paul Grünbacher and Alexander Egyed},
journal = {Autom. Softw. Eng.},
title = {Developing and evolving a DSL-based approach for runtime monitoring of systems of systems},
year = {2018},
number = {4},
pages = {875--915},
volume = {25},
abstract = {Complex software-intensive systems are often described as systems of systems (SoS) due to their heterogeneous architectural elements. As SoS behavior is often only understandable during operation, runtime monitoring is needed to detect deviations from requirements. Today, while diverse monitoring approaches exist, most do not provide what is needed to monitor SoS, e.g., support for dynamically defining and deploying diverse checks across multiple systems. In this paper we report on our experiences of developing, applying, and evolving an approach for monitoring an SoS in the domain of industrial automation software, that is based on a domain-specific language (DSL). We first describe our initial approach to dynamically define and check constraints in SoS at runtime and then motivate and describe its evolution based on requirements elicited in an industry collaboration project. We furthermore describe solutions we have developed to support the evolution of our approach, i.e., a code generation approach and a framework to automate testing the DSL after changes. We evaluate the expressiveness and scalability of our new DSL-based approach using an industrial SoS. We also discuss lessons we learned. Our results show that while developing a DSL-based approach is a good solution to support industrial users, one must prepare the approach for evolution, by making it extensible and adaptable to future scenarios. Particularly, support for automated (re-)generation of tools and code after changes and automated testing are essential.},
bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/ase/RabiserTVGE18.bib},
doi = {10.1007/S10515-018-0241-X},
timestamp = {Fri, 09 Apr 2021 18:27:25 +0200},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10515-018-0241-x},
}