Communications of the ACM
Better Software Design for Planes, Trains and Cars
Michael Butler
University of Southampton researchers are developing RODIN, an open source software toolkit aimed at helping the embedded software industry to model and design products. The toolkit includes a program for automatically generating software from high-level modes, and another tool, a theory plug-in, that takes product modeling to a more advanced stage.
"Software is a vital component of most modern systems yet software engineering is still quite immature in comparison to more established engineering fields," says Southampton professor Michael Butler. "Industry is starting to realize that if they use modeling tools, they can reduce errors in the design of software products and improve reliability."
The tools were initially developed as part of the European Union's Rigorous Open Development Environment for Complex Systems project, but Southampton researchers are developing them further under the Industrial Deployment of Advanced System Engineering Methods for High Productivity initiative.
From University of Southampton
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