A build server for model-driven engineering

Abstract

Model-driven engineering (MDE) is more and more used in collaborative settings. Therefore, the usage of build servers to gain early integration of different system parts is desirable. Current build server technologies only consider fully automated operations. Further, the availability of all described artifacts is necessary for a correct run. However, in MDE manual activities can occur in between automated operations, which also prevents that all necessary artifacts are already available when the build starts. Therefore, state of the art build techniques are not sufficient to support MDE development. In this paper, we present a build server prototype which is designed to fit the needs of development with multiple paradigms and languages.