Teaching agile model-driven engineering for cyber-physical systems

Abstract

Abstract-Agile development methods, model-driven engineering, and cyber-physical systems are important topics in software engineering education. It is not obvious how to teach their combination while respecting individual challenges posed to students and educators. We have devised a software project class for teaching the agile MDE for CPS. The project class was held in three different semesters. In this paper, we report on the setup of our exploratory study and its goals for teaching. We base our evaluation and insights on interviews and questionnaires. Our results show the feasibility of combination of agile MDE for CPS but also the challenges this combination poses to students and educators.

Using UML for Learning How to Design and Model Cyber-Physical Systems

“…The author remarks in her study that even when it is clear that there are problems with the skills or competencies of engineers working with CPS, the actual courses barely focus on this subject. In the same line, the studies of [8] show that a combination of Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) and CPS can be taught in an effective way in the courses based on projects [9]. With respect to MDE the authors of [10] arrived to three main conclusions: first, the teaching of MDE can not reuse previous knowledge from code-centric approximations; second, there is lack of efficient tools; third, there is still missing a good course text-book.…”

“…Finally, some papers related to the teaching of CPS are mention that use different tools for modeling and design [7], [8], [31]- [33].…”

“…After this, the method performs the analysis, providing the CPS with a systematic fashion of implementing the use cases through activity diagrams, class diagrams and deployment diagrams. The method was thought to be simple, reinforcing the idea that it should be easy to use and aligned to the principles of agile programming [8].…”

Towards a cyber-physical era: soft computing framework based multi-sensor array for water quality monitoring

“…In addition, it offers benefits of an open-source community and wider programming choices. The Python module has been instrumental in the development of software architecture frameworks to behavioural modelling for CPS (Ringert et al, 2014). On the other hand, in the development of CPS test beds, the Python module has been used as it supports adaptability and reconfigurability (Adhikari et al, 2016), although MATLAB is also a potential choice for the development of a soft computing framework for CPS.…”