Decidi escrever, em português, algumas críticas de livros que estou lendo e, a primeira delas é sobre o livro “VHDL – Descrição e Síntese de Circuitos Digitais” de Roberto d’Amore (2ª Edição,Read More…
As I pointed out in a previous post, the inheritance in operational QVT is semantically confusing. So yesterday I finally posted an issue in OMG about how the “when” and “where” clausesRead More…
An interesting feature in QVT Operational Mapping language (QVTo) is mapping reuse. Differently from QVT Relations (QVTr), the QVTo language has some concepts that allow reusing mappings easily, and, more importantly, inRead More…
In QVT, it is possible to execute external code in a transformation. According to the standard, it has some benefits (QVT, 2009, p.10): It allows complex algorithms to be coded in anyRead More…
Here it is, finally, my PhD thesis in Computer Engineering. It is in Portuguese and its original title is “Transformação de um Modelo de Empresa em um Modelo de Casos de UsoRead More…
I’ve obtained my PhD degree in Computer Engineering in December 8, 2011. The examination board was composed by the following members: Dr. Fernanda Alencar (UFPE) Dr. Jaelson Castro (UFPE) Dr. Jorge RiscoRead More…
There are several meta-models and templates for use case textual description. These representations have different goals and viewpoints, thus proposing different concepts, or different relationship between concepts, or even different semantics forRead More…
I’ve published a paper in WER 2011 that analyzes the most common elements of a use case textual representation and proposes a meta-model considering them. Due to lack of space, it wasn’tRead More…
Last week I’ve decided to translate my QVTo transformation to Portuguese. I’m preparing an experiment that uses this transformation, and my subjects are Brazilian students. So it wouldn’t be appropriate to haveRead More…
Medini QVT was one of the first QVT tools to be available to the community – if not the first. To my knowledge, it is still the only functional QVT Relations tool.Read More…