QMGenerator: Generation of quality models from a metamodel based on The MDA approach

Abstract

Today, technology and IT platforms are in continuous exponential growth, however, this growth has created several problems related to portability, reusability, interoperability but most important of all is the fact that it is related to the software quality. From these facts, the OMG proposed the Model Driven Architecture (MDA), which is based on the models as independent primary objects of any platform, and which are transformed thereafter into other objects specific to each platform (code, dB count, XMLFile,...). Therefore, to assess and ensure the quality of software, stakeholders (designer, developers, users, &) in this domain, need a quality model, the most difficult thing to do is to choose it from a diversity of models taking into account the rarity of the meta-models. Based on the MDA approach, this article will introduce a software quality and quality models, a comparison of model structures, our meta-model of software quality and finally, the proposal of a process of generating models by our QMGenerator Framework of software quality.