Model-Driven Development for Systems Engineering
and Software Development
Rhapsody’s powerful key enabling technologies provide
the systems engineer and software developer with UML /SysML
compliant tools that can be extended for domain specific
modeling, providing a truly collaborative development
environment that allows any sized teams, large or small, to
communicate effectively and productively. Using integrated
requirements management and traceability features ensures
that the design always meets the requirements. Engineers
and developers can use Design for Testability (DFT)
capabilities to reduce defects early in the process and
always validate against the requirements. In addition,
Rhapsody provides engineers and developers the capability
to generate full applications, not just code frames,
reducing development time and enabling users to meet
challenging time-to-market pressures. These key enabling
technologies, packaged in an easy-to-use format, make
Rhapsody the first in class solution for the software and
systems engineering community.
Rhapsody’s advanced graphical modeling offers
realistic design capture for better communications amongst
peers.
Model-Driven Development (MDD) technology
enables professionals to achieve unparalleled productivity
gains over traditional document driven approaches by
enabling users to specify the system design and
architecture graphically, simulate and automatically
validate the system as it is being built. This allows
engineers and developers to ultimately produce a quality
systems specification that is correct, non-ambiguous and
completely satisfies original requirements. Through
Rhapsody’s Model Driven Architecture (MDA) support,
one can rapidly target the Platform Independent Model (PIM)
to a real-time embedded operating system in seconds.
Rhapsody lends itself to a design approach where the
software can be constantly executed and validated on the
host environment, then brought right down to the embedded
target for target based testing. By fully integrating the
specific demands of the systems engineer and the software
developer, Rhapsody places a powerful, featureloaded tool
in the user’s hands so they can develop high quality
systems and software in a shorter time.
