1. Graduation Project Kick-off presentation - SET
Code-based vs Model-driven implementation of a Cloud Computing platform
Graduation Project
Kick-off presentation - SET
Manuel Guillen
BIS

2. Agenda Introduction Project Description Project Explanation
Purpose
Justification
What are SHARE and Mendix
Project Explanation
Architecture
Evaluation
Project Plan
Remarks and Current situation

3. Introduction
Research software is created and used as a tool in the pursuit of scientific or engineering research ideas
Not commercial
Associated with an individual, research group or a scientific community
Must be evaluated but it is expensive
Level of accessibility: tool, documentation, inputs, outputs, etc.
A solution can be based on cloud computing
SHARE is the current solution (code-based)
What about a model-driven solution (Mendix)?

4. Project Purpose

5. Justification
New requirements and extensions
Time, resources and knowledge
SHARE has emerged to solve concrete reproducibility problems in the domain of model transformation.
Find the best solution
Mendix for reengineering?
Improvement
COMPARISON
MDE
Less code
Modeling
Portability
Reusability
Interoperability

6. PHP solution based on cloud computing
For sharing any type of case study solution to reviewers and workshop participants
Integrates virtualization and web technologies
Workflow system to:
request access to a group of virtual machine images
Start a virtual machine for purposes of evaluation

7. Provides tools to quickly:
Collaborative and agile platform for rapidly building and manage business applications.
Provides tools to quickly:
Design, build, test, integrate, deploy, manage and optimize service-oriented business applications within any existing business and IT environment.
Challenge: Use it not for business but for research software evaluation purposes.

8. Project Architecture User authentication Web server Database
Interaction to initiate new VM session
Resulting activity on a VM
Server boots a VM with the selected image and makes it available for the user
User (credentials)
Apache, MySQL and VirtualBox. Linux and PHP

9. Evaluation Evaluate and compare Framework
Is a generic MDE tool suitable for re-engineering a code-based prototype?
Does the end-result support the implementation of new features better?
Framework
Goal-Question-Metric
Other frameworks for missing points

10. Project Plan Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Finish documentation
Review and correct
Presentation
Step 3
Define rules and metrics
Compare both systems (with users)
Identify possible improvements
Step 2
Create a prototype with Mendix
Validate prototype with users
Fix mistakes and revalidate
Step 1
Get knowledge and train with the tool
Identify current features (and desired ones)
Validate data and info with users

11. Remarks and Current Situation
Three approaches for the project:
Use the current system developed in PHP and just add the new features but using Mendix
Migrate the entire system to Mendix and compare both technologies (without any new feature)
Create an entire new SHARE system with Mendix
Reengineer the web tier of the application
Current Situation:
Analyzing the current system (Code, functionality, etc)
Last part of step 1