Kontinuierliches Engineering für Evolutionäre Infrastrukturen. Abschlussbericht

This report is the summary of tree years of intensive - and successful - research in the field of Continuous Software Engineering in the KONTEN-project. The participants in this project were the building society "Bausparkasse Schwäbisch Hall", the Technical University Berlin and Fraunhofer Institute for Software an d Systems Engineering (ISST). The sub-project Conceptual Base presents a general model of software evolution developed at the TU-Berlin and a description language "ComponentML" to specify components designed by Fraunhofer ISST. For the general model of software evolution, the context-based constraint (CoCon) has been developed. Using CoCon, components can be enriched with context information and constraints can be formulated for various context information. ComponentML supports the evolution of component-based systems using a platform-independent XML-representation of the components and their relations. In the sub-project Corporate Finance, the Bausparkasse Schwäbisch Hall and the Fraunhofer ISST dealt with tree main points: 1. Architecture of components: Broad research was done in the field of components for corporate finance:viewpoints, reference models, types of components and business entities, requirements for concrete finance components, specification of finance components, implementation with modern technologies, integration of legacy systems. 2. Evolution of system architecture: The main point of this research was how to support the realisation of new finance products with software systems. 3. Development guide: A general and a specific development guide based on the description language "ComponentML" were the result of this research.