Mapping data models of the standardized automotive testing data storage to the unified modeling language

Abstract

This paper describes an approach to combine standards specified for the automotive test data management with the widely used Unified Modeling Language (UML). The major challenges in the automotive test data management domain include coping with a huge amount of data produced, considering their long lifetime, and trying to re-use as much as possible of the already acquired knowledge. For this purpose the automotive standards organization ASAM (Association for Standardization of Automation and Measuring Systems) has specified a storage standard called Open Data Services (ODS), which allows users to design data models fitted to their specific needs while keeping general classification information for generic use. On the other hand, object oriented concepts have evolved in the software technology domain, and UML has emerged as the most important standard to specify software-based systems. Given the similarities between the goals of ODS and aspects of UML that describe the static parts of a software system, this paper proposes a mapping between these two technologies.