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Contemporary model driven development tools only partially support the abstractions occurring in complex embedded systems development. The paper presents an interpretive case study in which the concerns held by 7 engineers in a large product developing organization were compared to the concerns supported by the modeling tool in use. The paper’s main finding is an empirically grounded catalogue of concerns, categorized with respect to visibility in models and other artefacts in use. In the studied case, 26% of the concerns were visible in the models, whereas 38% were visible elsewhere and 36% not visible at all. The catalogue has been presented to several stakeholders in the unit studied, with positive feedback: particularly appreciated were the notion of concern visibility as indicator of degree of implementation of model driven development, and that concerns have traceable connections to experiences of the unit’s engineers.
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Pareto, L., Eriksson, P., Ehnebom, S. (2009). Concern Visibility in Base Station Development – An Empirical Investigation. In: Schürr, A., Selic, B. (eds) Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems. MODELS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5795. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04425-0_15
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