Advanced Tools for Object-oriented Software development

Introduction

ATOS (Advanced Tools for Object-oriented Software development) was a three year (1999-2002) research project financed by:

• TEKES (Finnish Center for Technological Development)
• Nokia
• Ebsolut
• Neles Automation
• Plenware
• Sensor SC

The research was carried out at the Software Systems Laboratory, Tampere University of Technology. The aim was to study advanced tool support for UML based software development. In particular, we were investigating new kinds of automated tool support that could be integrated with a CASE tool.

Our platform for prototype implementations was TED, a software design environment developed and used at Nokia.

The main research lines were:

• Visual UML-integrated scripting mechanisms
• UML model transformation / abstraction / synthesis / checking techniques
• Reverse engineering techniques producing UML models.

ATOS project was finished on schedule on 31st of March, 2002. The tools and techniques produced during the project were further developed in the UML++ and ART projects.