Tag: software engineering
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An Architecturally-Integrated, Systems-Based Hazard Analysis for Medical Applications
A few months ago, I wrote about my recent work on defining a subset of the language AADL to specify the architecture of bits of software (apps) that would run on medical application platforms (MAPs). Since then, I’ve been working on how developers can use these semi-formal architectural descriptions to do useful things. The first…
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Tying A Build Together with Jenkins
Recently I wrote about the project I’m working on, and mentioned the range of technologies used in support of that effort. Since then, I’ve written about the building, testing and documentation tools I used, but today I’d like to discuss how everything is tied together using Jenkins. Jenkins is a tool that enables continuous integration…
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Automating all Aspects of a Build with Maven Plugins
I’ve mentioned in recent posts that I recently wrote some software called the MDCF Architect for my research, and along with the implementation (an eclipse plugin), I also built a number of supporting artifacts — things like developer-targeted documentation and testing with coverage information. Integrating these (and other) build features with Maven is often pretty…
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Documenting a language using a custom Sphinx domain and Pygments lexer
Recently I’ve been looking at the software engineering tools / techniques I used when engineering the MDCF Architect (see my original post). Today I’m going to talk about Sphinx and Pygments — tools used by my research lab for developer-facing documentation. Both of these tools work great “out of the box” for most setups, but…
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Building an Eclipse Plugin with Maven Tycho
In a recent post, I wrote about my current research project: a restricted subset of AADL and a translator that converts from this subset to Java. Since AADL has a pretty nice Eclipse plugin in OSATE2, I think it’s pretty natural to build on top of that. Not only does this make for an easy…
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Eclipse Plug-In Testing with JUnit Plug-In Tests
I recently mentioned that my current research project is a subset of AADL and an associated Eclipse plug-in which translates from that subset into Java. Since both my advisors and I are interested in following recommended software engineering practices, I needed to figure out how to programmatically test my plug-in’s functionality. Unfortunately, testing an Eclipse plug-in…