1. IVNET’06 Florianópolis, Brazil October 2006
ProjectIT The ProjectIT-Studio, an integrated environment for the development of information systems
IVNET’06
Florianópolis, Brazil
October 2006
Alberto Silva, Carlos Videira, João Saraiva,
David Ferreira, Rui Silva

2. Overview The ProjectIT Initiative The ProjectIT-Studio Overview
The ProjectIT-Studio/Requirements
The ProjectIT-Studio/MDD
The ProjectIT-Studio – Putting all together
Conclusions

3. ProjectIT Initiative
It’s a research program from the Information Systems Group (GSI) of INESC-ID
Objectives
analysis, integration and support the best practices in the management and implementation of IT projects
Motivation:
“How to improve the quality and productivity of IT projects?”
Implemented using the .NET Framework

4. ProjectIT Initiative
Functional View…

5. ProjectIT Initiative
Applicational View…

6. ProjectIT Initiative
ProjectIT Approach…

7. ProjectIT-Studio Designed to enhance projects’ productivity
Main Components…
Designed to enhance projects’ productivity

8. ProjectIT-Studio
Usage Scenarios…

9. ProjectIT-Studio/Requirements
Its goal is to support natural language free-form text requirements processing, by providing
a flexible and robust approach to requirements elicitation, where requirements engineers, as well as non-technical stakeholders, can write the specification of the system to be developed
activity guidance assisted by a rich set of GUI components, namely on-the-fly feedback during the specification activity

10. ProjectIT-Studio/Requirements
Screenshot…

11. ProjectIT-Studio/Requirements
Main Components…

12. ProjectIT-Studio/MDD
Main Features and Plugins…
Provides the following tasks, according to the ProjectIT approach
System modeling
Models-to-code & Models-to-Models transformations
Aggregates two plugins:
A standard UML visual modeling tool (ProjectIT-Studio/UML2Modeler)
A template-based code generator (ProjectIT-Studio/MDDGenerator)

13. ProjectIT-Studio/MDD
UML2 Modeling…

14. ProjectIT-Studio/MDD
Generative Process Editor…

15. ProjectIT-Studio/MDD
Template Editor…

16. ProjectIT-Studio/MDD
Template engine overview…

17. ProjectIT-Studio
Putting all together – a technical view…

18. Conclusions
ProjectIT-Studio is an integrated environment of a set of components developed on top of the Eclipse.NET framework, and so it is an extensible, modular and plugin based environment.
ProjectIT-Studio currently supports the two most relevant and distinctive features of the ProjectIT initiative:
requirements specification and management;
models definition and model-to-code transformations

19. Conclusions
The results we have achieved until now show it is possible to produce software systems in a more productive way, by adapting and integrating techniques such as
rigorous natural language based requirements specification
system modeling
code generation or models/artifacts transformation.

20. More Information Consult Contacts
Contacts
Alberto Silva
João Saraiva