Authors:
Jose-Miguel Horcas
1
;
Mónica Pinto
1
and
Lidia Fuentes
2
Affiliations:
1
University of Málaga, Spain
;
2
Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Keyword(s):
Aspect-Orientation, ATL, CVL, Model Transformations, Security, Variability, Weaving Pattern.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications and Software Development
;
Domain-Specific Modeling and Domain-Specific Languages
;
Languages, Tools and Architectures
;
Model-Driven Software Development
;
Software Engineering
;
Software Factories and Software Product Lines
Abstract:
In this paper, we combine the Common Variability Language (CVL) and the ATL Transformation Language
to customize and incorporate a generic security model into any application that requires security. Security
spans a large set of concerns such as integrity, encryption or authentication, among others, and each concern
needs to be incorporated into the base application in a different way and at different points of the application.
We propose a set of weaving patterns using model transformations in ATL to automatically weave the security
concerns with the base application in an aspect-oriented way. Since different applications require different
security requirements, the security model needs to be customized before its incorporation into the application.
We resolve the variability of the security properties and implement the weaving process in CVL. We use an
e-voting case study to illustrate our proposal using the CVL approach.