Story driven modeling: a practical guide to model driven software development

Abstract

The Rational Unified Process lacks practical guidance for the development of object oriented applications. Model Driven Software Development (MDD) proposes to do most of these development steps at the model level of abstraction. This tutorial takes the MDD idea and examplifies such a development process. The tutorial guides the user from textual requirements descriptions through UML scenario modeling to the derivation of test case specifications, class diagrams and UML behavior models and finally to the implementation of the desired system. The tutorial employs a running example that allows to illustrate the modeling activities for each development phase and the guidelines for each modeling step. We discuss how existing CASE tools may be used in such an approach and how the Fujaba environment supports our development process.