Towards CMMI-compliant MDD Software Processes

In the last years, Model-Driven Development (MDD) approaches have taken an important role in the quality improvement of software products. These approaches perform the automatic compilation of high-abstraction model s to generate the final application code. In this way, MDD approaches aim at reducing development costs as wel l as increasing productivity, portability, interoperabil ity, and ease of software evolution; i.e., achieving higher product quality. A major obstacle for MDD approaches to be massively a dopted by industry is their lack of alignment to well-defined quality models for software processes. We advocate that per fo ming a compliance analysis, based on a software process qu ality model, is the first step to deal with this obstacle . In this paper, we analyze the degree of compliance of an industria lly applied MDD approach with the CMMI-DEV quality model. In particular, we determine those characteristics that meet the technical solution process area of CMMI-DEV and identify improvement opportunities to obtain a proper alignment of the MDD approach with this model.