Towards boosting the OpenMBEE platform with model-code consistency
Robbert Jongeling, Antonio Cicchetti, Federico Ciccozzi, Jan Carlson · 2020
Eventual consistency between design and implementation is imperative for the quality and maintainability of software systems. Towards achieving this consistency, engineers can analyze the gaps between models and corresponding code to gain insights into differences between design and implementation. Due to the different levels of abstraction of the involved artifacts, this analysis is a complex task to automate. We study an industrial MBSE setting where we aim to provide model-code gap analysis between SysML system models and corresponding C/C++ code through structural consistency checks. To this end, we propose an extension of the OpenMBEE platform, to include code as one of the synchronized development artifacts in addition to models and documentation. In this paper, we outline our initial research idea to include code as a view in this platform and we propose to explicitly link the code to generated documentation, and thereby to the model.