Guidelines for using MARTE profile packages considering concerns of real-time embedded systems

Real-time and embedded systems (RTES) encompass a variety of embedded and real-time properties and requirements which defines them. Timing behavior of RTES physical and logical subsystems is as important as their functional behavior. These systems must define, in addition to their functional properties, the control of several peripheral components, of their constraints, communication interfaces and temporal and non-functional requirements. Understanding the representation and treatment of several properties of real-time and embedded systems has direct influence in their development, reliability and safety. Therefore, it is pertinent to analyze the properties that represent this domain and to provide strategies for a complete definition of model elements'. This paper aims to provide guidelines for comprehension, application and possible adoption of the UML MARTE (Modelling and Analysis of RealTime and Embedded Systems) profile in specification, modeling and design of real-time and embedded properties of a system. The proposed design strategy is applied to a case study, in the domain of intelligent automation systems, in order to direct the adoption of the constructors of MARTE profile in other development contexts and to describe the semantics and syntax of these builders to strengthen their comprehensibility.