DEGAS - Project Presentation

The main goal of DEGAS is the design and implementation of a prototype environment to help software engineers in the development phases of global applications.

In order to develop a good quality tool, we first need to understand and clearly define the peculiar features of global applications. Two case studies on mobile entertainment and mobile home banking carried out by our industrial partners will drive our work.

A primary goal of our project is to make the environment available to the broadest audience. Hence the specification formalism selected for global applications must be easily pushable in the market and easy to use. This constraints made us choose a standard which is already largely in use among software engineers: UML.

The goal of having the broadest audience means that we must reduce to a minimum the knowledge on process algebras and formal models needed by the user of the environment.

The project scope and approach is depicted by the following figure:

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