Model-driven software development employs models to describe different aspects of a system on different levels of abstraction. These aspects are driven by technology or application domain. Modeling is often done in specific graphical or textual notations, called domain-specific languages (DSL). In recent years such ...

An efficient and effective way to comprehend large software landscapes is required. The current state of the art often visualizes software landscapes via flat graph-based representations of nodes, applications, and their communication. In our ExplorViz visualization, we introduce hierarchical abstractions aiming at solving ...

This extended abstract summarizes our article on extracting probabilistic workload spec- ifications for load testing and performance prediction of session-based application systems, which has been published recently in the Journal on Software and Systems Modeling [Vo ̈16].

The Pipe-and-Filter style represents a well-known family of component-based architectures. By executing each filter on a dedicated processing unit, it is also possible to leverage contemporary distributed systems and multi-core systems for a high throughput. However, this simple parallelization approach is not very ...

Domain-specific languages are designed and used to assist software development in various domains. Safety-critical systems such as aviation systems, railway control systems and nuclear power plants require certified software by law. This paper focuses on domain-specific languages that are used to represent a physical ...

In addition to studying the construction and evolution of software services, the software engineering discipline needs to address the operation of continuously running software services. A requirement for its robust operation are means for effective monitoring of software runtime behavior. In contrast to profiling for ...