Resumen de S3O Tool: Fostering Multidisciplinary Collaborative Modeling for Dependable Embedded Systems

Xabier de Carlos García, Josune de Sosa Querejeta, Xabier Mendialdua, Salvador Trujillo Gonzalez

• The engineering of embedded systems is evolving quickly nowadays to cope with stringent pressures. Multidisciplinary workteams, distributed across several locations worldwide, need to communicate among distinct disciplines. One solution is to specify the system at a higher abstraction level. S3O is a tool suite that addresses some of these issues. S3O provides collaborative and dis- tributed modeling capabilities based on Model Driven Engineering specifically designed for dependable embedded systems. Specified models drive the entire engineering process and embedded software is typically generated automatically. The main benefit is to ease embedded engineering process by including collab- orative support and decrease complexity when designing by using abstractions. By using S3O, stakeholders without programming or platform skills can specify embedded systems. Since the code is generated automatically, a significant num- ber of programming errors can be avoided. Additionally, stakeholders are guided through the engineering process and so the multidisciplinary collaborative work for dependable embedded systems is realized.