COSABuilder AND COSAInstantiator: AN EXTENSIBLE TOOL FOR ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTION
Adel Alti, Abdellah Boukerram, Adel Smeda, Sylvain Maillard, Mourad Oussalah · International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering · 2010
As software systems grow, their complexity augments rapidly. In consequence their understandability and evolvability are becoming a difficult task. To address this issue, we have previously defined COSA (Component-Object based Software Architecture), which is a software architecture model that describes systems as a collection of components and connectors. However, COSA has been undertaken with academic rather than commercial goals. This paper presents a modeling tool (called COSABuilder) and instantiating tool (called COSAInstantiator) for COSA metamodel and describes their various features. Our contribution is not only offering MDA-based tools but also automatic instantiation and automatic verification of software architecture specifications. The goal is to preserve architecture traceability features in the modeling space and to create accurate architectures.