Model-Driven Integration and the OSLC Standard: a Mapping of Applied Studies

Abstract

Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) is an open standard for tool interoperability, which allows data federation throughout Software Engineering (SE) application lifecycles. The OSLC community has been active since 2008, and there is still an open question: "What is the state-of-the-art and practice of OSLC for tool integration in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for Software Engineering environments?". Objective: To answer this question, our main goal is to map the state-of-the-art and practice on the adoption of OSLC in SE lifecycles. Method: This paper presents a Systematic Mapping Study (SMS) by analyzing 59 primary studies and addressing integration issues such as building SE toolchains. Results: Our findings show that OSLC has been mostly implemented with the development of adapters and MDE. Conclusions: The main advantages of OSLC are related to linked data, involving not only tool adapters for point-to-point integrations, but also proposing solutions for tool replacement in the toolchain, as well as including modifications of OSLC domain specifications and solutions for automated activities for tool integration.