ScatterClipse: A Model-Driven Tool-Chain for Developing, Testing, and Prototyping Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

ScatterClipse is a generative plugin-oriented tool-chain for the model-driven development of the applications running on the sensor boards of our WSN-platform ScatterWeb. The goal is the furthermost automated and standardized generation of software system families for the ScatterWeb sensor boards. The ScatterClipse's novel approach lies in the accomplishment of the integration of visual automated application debugging and WSN-management features in the model-driven software development process of the deployed sensor boards. Furthermore the just-in-time model validation makes a large contribution towards robustness by discovering certain bugs early on, which, if manually implemented, would only be discovered very late in the process. The plugin-oriented open architecture eases the appropriate enhancement of our opensource tool-chain in response to newly arisen questions regarding WSN.