Dr. Dobb's Journal - September 2008 - (Page 20)

d09caril_p3db 7/17/08 8:07 AM Page 20 Core Technology by John Carrillo and Scott McKorkle Application Lifecycle Management Meets Model-Driven Development John is Senior Director of Telelogic Strategic Solutions for Telelogic, an IBM Company. He can be reached at carrillj@us.ibm.com. Scott is Director of Modeling Solutions for Telelogic, an IBM Company. He can be reached at smckorkl@us.ibm.com. Separately, they’re great; together, they’re unbeatable Application lifecycle management (ALM) has evolved into an ecosystem of integrated processes and domain technologies for the system and software development lifecycle. ALM establishes a framework that you can use to: • Catalog and manage customer requirements. • Plan a portfolio of development projects to address these requirements. • Manage design, development, testing, and deployment. • Manage change throughout the entire process. MDD, on the other hand, lets you more accurately design, simulate, and validate the complex behavior of distributed, mission-critical systems. The modeldriven process uses visual aids to accurately describe and define system objectives and solutions. Scientific and technical industries, such as aerospace, defense, and telecommunications, depend on MDD to increase the quality and efficiency of complex software and systems through modeling. The combination of ALM and MDD creates a rich environment of connected processes and interacting solutions that are proving invaluable for successful systems and software development projects. This is a welcome advance, given the state of today’s complex development environments. A major challenge for many organizations is finding a way of integrating all aspects of the development lifecycle in an intuitive, yet formal manner to deliver long lasting, business critical products, systems, and applications. Moreover, in combination ALM and MDD provide exponential gains in the optimization of development lifecycle processes. MDD is a natural fit within the ALM framework. The integration of ALM and MDD lets you optimize products and services and serves as a framework for the fast, accurate, and coordinated design and development of architectures, applications, and products. The combined framework connects to an enterprise architecture at the highest level, helping organizations adopt more iterative development approaches. It also provides integrated products and best practices, as well as change management, so organizations can respond with greater agility as the pace of business changes. Application Lifecycle Management The concept of application lifecycle management (ALM) was introduced to help companies identify tools and technology to ensure software project success. Figure 1 shows the key components of the ALM ecosystem that focus on visibility, quality, and alignment in the development lifecycle. 20 Dr. Dobb’s Journal l www.ddj.com l September 2008 http://www.ddj.com

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Dr. Dobb's Journal - September 2008 Contents Friday Night Fish Fry Alia Vox Developer Diaries Developer’s Notebook A Conversation With Erik Demaine Application Lifecycle Management Meets Model-Driven Development Building a Robust Development Environment Real Users Really Matter Matching Wildcards: An Algorithm The Android Mobile Phone Platform Managing Application Thread Use Signalling Integer Overflows in Java .NET Development & the IBM WebSphere Portal Server The Agile Edge Effective Concurrency Swaine’s Flames

Dr. Dobb's Journal - September 2008

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