Investigando a integração de ferramentas com OSLC no contexto do desenvolvimento de software

Abstract

The software industry continuously invests in modern tools to support the software development lifecycle. On the one hand, this continuous effort towards production environment modernization allows the introduction of novelties to increase productivity and software quality. However, it also presents challenges for software engineers to achieve an integrated end-to-end environment, such as dealing with various tool configurations while managing the application lifecycle. To mitigate these challenges, many approaches have been proposed for tool integration in the context of Software Engineering (SE) enviroments. In this context, the industrial and open standard called Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) was proposed to promote the interoperability of tools, including those devoted for software development lifecycles. In other words, the OSLC standard allows for federation of data over the entire Software Engineering (ES) application lifecycle. OSLC defines a common interchange format for artifacts created along the software project, as well as allow their manipulation by other tools through functions. This study presents an investigation about tool integration solutions built on the OSLC standard, exploring automatic source code generation of OSLC adapters from Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) approaches.