Model-driven engineering (MDE) refers to a range of approaches where models play an indispensable role in software development. Modeling promotes higher level of abstraction, therefore reducing complexity of software development and promoting communication among the several stakeholders in the development process (e.g. product managers, designers, programmers). MDE initiatives, like OMG’s Model-Driven Architecture (MDA), make claims of increased quality and productivity by separating business and application logic from underlying platform technology, transforming models to other models and automating code generation (ranging from system skeletons to complete, deployable products). However, while quality assurance is a well-known topic in “traditional” Software Engineering, less is known on how to assess quality across the MDE lifecycle (encompassing new activities such as metamodel engineering or transformations specification), as well as on the effective improvements obtained by applying MDE itself, face to not using it at all.

We seek novel contributions ranging from conceptual frameworks to case studies on how to leverage ICT systems quality with MDE techniques, as well as how to induce quality assurance in the MDE lifecycle itself.

The suggested topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

• Quality models in the MDE context
• Quality assurance in the MDE development flow
• Evaluating the quality of models and metamodels
• Models’ traceability throughout the lifecycle
• Assessing quality in model transformations
• Measuring the improvement achieved with an MDE approach, specially regarding quality
• Quality in the context of model-driven service oriented systems
• Case studies and lessons learned in applying MDE in industry
• Empirical studies on the quality of MDE processes
• Modeling and analyzing quality standards
• Role of MDE in the quality evaluation of software maintenance, evolution and migration scenarios

QUATIC 2018, and thus the thematic track, is associated with a Special Issue at the Software Quality Journal and provides an opportunity to have an open discussion and receive feedback in preparation for submission to that special issue.

Track Committee

Co-Chairs:

• Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia
• Davide di Ruscio, University of L'Aquila, Italy

Program Committee:

• Mauricio Alferez, INRIA, Rennes, France
• Antonio Cicchetti, Mälardalen University, Sweden
• Robert Clarisó, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
• Michalis Famelis, University of Toronto, Canada
• Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, USA
• Ludovico Iovino, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy
• Geylani Kardas, Ege University, Turkey
• Dimitris Kolovos, University of York, UK
• Eugene Syriani, University of Montreal, Canada
• Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, Metacase, Finland
• Antonio Vallecillo, Univ. Valencia, Spain
• Manuel Wimmer, Technical University Vienna, Austria