Project Background & Links

The Context Mapper project has been developed as part of term projects at the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST) (former “HSR”). You can find further background information and details about our projects in the papers listed below.

Papers & Context Mapper - Related Links

2024

• Miguel Levezinho, Stefan Kapferer, Olaf Zimmermann and António Rito Silva: Domain-Driven Design Representation of Monolith Candidate Decompositions, Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing – 28th International Conference, EDOC 2024, Vienna, Austria, September 10 - 13, 2024; Volume 15409
  • to be published soon (Pre-Print)
  • Related Context Mapper feature: Coordination between Application Services
  • EDOC 2024 presentation slides
• Context Mapper supports Value-Driven Analysis and Design (VDAD) process published in Kapferer S., Zimmermann O., Stocker M.: Value-Driven Analysis and Design: Applying Domain-Driven Practices in Ethical Software Engineering, Proceedings of EuroPLoP 2024, ACM Digital Library
  • Open Access, PDF
  • Related Context Mapper features: Value-Driven Analysis and Design (VDAD) Support
  • Ethical Software Engineering GitHub Organisation
• Context Mapper project mentioned in Zimmermann O., Pautasso C., Kapferer S., Stocker M.: Continuous Integration and Delivery in Open Source Development and Pattern Publishing: Lessons Learned With Tool Setup and Pipeline Evolution, IEEE Software (Volume: 41, Issue: 1, Jan.-Feb. 2024)
  • Published Paper

2023

• Context Mapper Language (CML) featured in Segregate Commands from Queries interface refactoring, available online and in Stocker M., Zimmermann O.: API Refactoring to Patterns: Catalog, Template and Tools for Remote Interface Evolution, Proceedings of EuroPLoP 2023, ACM Digital Library
  • Open Access, PDF

2022

• Context Mapper and its CML language acknowledged in Zimmermann O., Stocker M., Lübke D., Zdun U., Pautasso C.: Patterns for API Design: Simplifying Integration with Loosely Coupled Message Exchanges, Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Vernon)
  • Book Website
• The flow syntax of Context Mapper is acknowledged and adopted in Zimmermann O., Luban K., Stocker M., Bernard G.: Continuous Process Model Refinement from Business Vision to Event Simulation and Software Automation: Bridging Gaps between Stakeholder Communities, Practices, Notations, and Tools, Proceedings of ICSE IWSIB 2022
  • Published Paper
• Stefan Kapferer and Olaf Zimmermann: Domain-Driven Design (DDD) in Practice — Experience with Context Mapper, two translated and mildly edited blogposts that cover the contents of the original article «Domain-Driven Design in der Praxis - Erfahrungen mit dem Open-Source-Tool Context Mapper» written in German; each part features one case and related lessons learned.
  • Part by Stefan Kapferer (mimacom)
  • Part by Olaf Zimmermann (OST)

2021

• Stefan Kapferer and Olaf Zimmermann: «Domain-Driven Design in der Praxis - Erfahrungen mit dem Open-Source-Tool Context Mapper» (GERMAN), In JavaSPEKTRUM 6/2021, pages 20–23
  • Article PDF (sponsored by mimacom)
• Stefan Kapferer and Olaf Zimmermann: Domain-driven Architecture Modeling and Rapid Prototyping with Context Mapper, Revised and Extended Selected Papers from the 8th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development, MODELSWARD 2020, Valletta,
  • Published paper (in: Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science)
    • Author’s Copy (PDF)

2020

• Stefan Kapferer and Olaf Zimmermann: Domain-driven Service Design - Context Modeling, Model Refactoring and Contract Generation, 14th Symposium and Summer School On Service-Oriented Computing (SommerSoC 2020)
  • Published paper (in: Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science)
    • Author’s Copy (PDF)
  • Presentation
  • SummerSOC Young Researcher Award 2020 goes to Stefan Kapferer (GERMAN)
• Olaf Zimmermann: Dimensions of Successful Web API Design and Evolution: Context, Contracts, Components, Keynote ICWE 2020, International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE)
  • Keynote
    • Slides (PDF)
  • Demo: Domain-Driven Service Design with Context Mapper and MDSL
• Stefan Kapferer and Olaf Zimmermann: Domain-specific Language and Tools for Strategic Domain-driven Design, Context Mapping and Bounded Context Modeling, In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - MODELSWARD, pages 299–306. INSTICC, SciTePress.
  • Published paper (PDF)
  • Presentation
• Stefan Kapferer: A Modeling Framework for Strategic Domain-driven Design and Service Decomposition, Master Thesis at University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland (HSR FHO)
  • Project report
  • Abstract

2019

• Stefan Kapferer and Olaf Zimmermann: Context Mapper: DSL and Tools for Domain-Driven Service Design - Bounded Context Modeling and Microservice Decomposition, talk at Java User Group Switzerland in St. Gallen (September 10, 2019)
  • Talk abstract
  • Slides
• Stefan Kapferer: Service Decomposition as a Series of Architectural Refactorings, student research project
  • Term project on which the Architectural Refactorings (ARs) and the MDSL generator of Context Mapper are based on.
    • (see Microservices Domain-Specific Language (MDSL) for language details on MDSL)
  • Project report
  • Abstract
• Olaf Zimmermann: Domain-Specific Service Decomposition with Microservices API Patterns, keynote slides mentioning Context Mapper, Microservices Conference 2019
  • Keynote abstract
  • Slides
  • Microservice API Patterns Website

2018

• Stefan Kapferer: A Domain-specific Language for Service Decomposition, student research project
  • Term project on which the Context Mapping Language (CML) is based on.
  • Project report
  • Abstract
• Stefan Kapferer: Model Transformations for DSL Processing, seminar paper
  • Proof of concept for Architectural Refactorings (ARs) based on Henshin.
  • Presentation Slides

2017

• Olaf Zimmermann: Architectural refactoring for the cloud: a decision-centric view on cloud migration, Springer (Computing, February 2017, Volume 99, Issue 2, pp 129–145)
  • see also: Architectural Refactoring: A Task-Centric View on Software Evolution (InfoQ article)
• Olaf Zimmermann: Microservices tenets - Agile approach to service development and deployment, Springer (Computer Science - Research and Development, July 2017, Volume 32, Issue 3–4, pp 301–310)

Domain-Driven Design (DDD) Books & Links

• Scott Millett with Nick Tune: Patterns, Principles and Practices of Domain-Driven Design, J. Wiley & Sons, 2015
• Vaughn Vernon: Implementing Domain-Driven Design, Addison-Wesley, 2013
• Eric Evans: Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software, Addison-Wesley, 2003
• Eric Evans: DDD Reference

Find more DDD-related links here (Institute for Software, OST).

Other Resources

• Context Mapper Example Models

If you are interested in our project do not hesitate to contribute or get in touch with us.