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Software development process is a base ground for all software activities and ensures all aspects of the software. No quality is guaranteed without a definite process. Model-Driven Software Development process proposes an industrial method for software companies to produce the required software through model(s) and tools. On the other hand, Software Product Line imposes a set of frameworks and principles. As a result a tangible decrement of development time and cost along with an increment of quality is achieved. Mixing both processes creates a stronger industrial process in order to decrease the development time and cost. In this thesis, through a survey on both of the processes and related... 

In the modern software era, testing plays an invaluable role in software development as a quality assurance measure. Estimates have been made that up to 50% of effort and resources in software projects are allocated to testing. Model based testing (MBT) is one of the important stages of model driven development (MDD), which involves creating test cases from software models. When test cases are created from models, they reside at a higher level of abstraction, therefore creating and maintaining them will cost less, and will utilize more automation possibilities. Also, MBT takes a systematic route to test generation; this allows for a more goal-oriented and direct approach in achieving... 

Hydro power is a clean energy resource which has numerous advantages over other renewable energy systems including competitiveness with fossil fuel systems, high reliability, considerable potential, and availability of technology. These advantages have drawn attention to hydropower systems. Small Hydro Power (SHP) systems can be used for supplying the demand of rural and remote areas where electricity network rarely exists. SHP may also provide an investment opportunity. Comprehensive analysis of design features and operation of SHP and management of risks involved requires development and application of reliable analytical tools. The present research aims at developing a model for optimal... 

Due to the expansion of web applications, they have been gradually enhanced as to their usage of information and services. As a result, web users are faced with growing complexity, which has raised concerns not only on the quality and validity of information, but also on how the information is presented. This has resulted in the advent of a new branch of web systems called adaptive web systems, which focus on the adaptation of content, presentation and navigation based on the properties of the runtime environment and the preferences of the users. Generally, the concept of adaptivity can be appeared in the fields of non-functional services and requirements. Although this research is only... 

It has become increasingly important to be able to adapt or construct a software development process based on the specific characteristics of the development project at hand; this has resulted in the emergence of a new branch of study called Situational Method Engineering (SME). Compared with Software Engineering, Situational Method Engineering has not suitably matured, in that many of its deficiencies have not been properly addressed yet; SME approaches are especially deficient in support for modeling, portability, and automation. Model-Driven Development (MDD) has been effectively used for enhancing portability and automation in Software Engineering, and it is also considered as a... 

Using models to design systems has always had a vital role in engineering. Model Driven Development (MDD), as used in software engineering, uses models, modeling methods, and model transformation techniques as bases for automating the software development process. To this aim, MDD focuses on models and automatic model transformation to provide techniques for designing, understanding and maintaining models more easily. In order to achieve MDD goals, the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) was proposed by Object Management Group as a standard framework for MDD. On the other hand, Composition-Based Development (spanning Component-Based Development and Service-Oriented Development) has been... 

Automation of the software development process is the software engineers' final goal, but with the current facilities and knowledge in software engineering, it is not possible to automatically generate the whole software. Usually all the software in a specific domain contain common behaviors, which by careful exploration of these common behaviors and automation of code generation in these sections, the cost and time of projects' execution can be reduced. According to Model Driven Development (MDD), the first step in software development is creating appropriate models. For creating models, metamodel is required; therefore, we need to create a specific motamodel for the chosen domain or use... 

In Model-Driven Development (MDD), models are the main resources and products of analysis, design, implementation, documentation, and maintenance of software systems. MDD approaches intend to increase productivity and reduce time-to-market by enabling development at a higher level of abstraction, using concepts which are closer to the problem domain rather than the ones offered by programming languages. Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) is a MDD framework defined by OMG. MDA defines three levels of models for a software system: Computation-Independent Model (CIM), Platform-Independent Model (PIM), and Platform-Specific Model (PSM). Model transformation is the pivotal concept of MDA, and mainly... 

Education has become a crucial issue worldwide, and it needs new techniques and technologies to create and raise interest and motivation towards learning. Serious games are gaining acclaim as viable solutions for enhancing educational processes; Serious games are interactive computer applications that use a challenging and amusing context to transfer a practical skill, knowledge or attitude to their users. Organizations and companies need an effective way for teaching their business processes to their employees. There are many business-related serious games. but few of them focus on business processes, most of which are business-specific and no precise approach is used in their development,... 

As software technology has advanced, many related industries, such as game development, have also evolved. Games are not solely used for enjoyment anymore, and their application has expanded to various domains, the most important of which is education. Serious games connect education and enjoyment by achieving pedagogical objectives through gaming. Experience has shown that using this approach for education can be more effective than traditional methods. Serious games have been applied to various areas of education, one of which is software engineering. Software engineering covers a wide span of knowledge, and a range of methods are required for the education to be effective, especially... 

Model Driven Development (MDD) is a promising approach to software development, mainly due to the pivotal role of models in the process, and the high potential it provides for automated model/software generation. Since software processes can themselves be considered as software, any technique or approach applied in the context of software development is also of potential use in the development of software development processes. Accordingly, the MDD approach can potentially be applied in the context of Situational Method Engineering (SME) ? a branch devoted to the study of developing bespoke software development processes and methods based on the specific characteristics of the development... 

Constructing bespoke software development processes according to the specifications of the project at hand has become a crucial issue, giving rise to a new branch of engineering known as Situational Method Engineering (SME). Compared with Software Engineering, Situational Method Engineering has not suitably matured, in that many of its deficiencies have not been properly addressed yet; SME approaches are especially deficient in support for modeling, portability, and automation.Model-Driven Development (MDD) has been effectively used for enhancing portability and automation in Software Engineering, and it is also considered as a promising approach for resolving the same issues in SME.... 

Offering software in the form of web services has gained great popularity due to the evolution of cloud architectures. REpresentational State Transfer (REST) comprises a set of rules and practices that provide simple and comprehensible APIs, clear representational structures, and scalable services for use in web engineering. Due to the simplicity and scalability of the REST architecture, it has become increasingly popular among web-service developers. Among the architectures used in web service design (REST, WSDL, SOAP), REST is the most common; it has significantly changed how systems are developed based on web services. Model-Driven Development (MDD) can facilitate the construction of...