Model-driven software development has once again become the focus of software engineering through the topics of MDA (Model Driven Architecture) and MDSD (Model Driven Software Development). UML has established itself as the standard modelling language for more complex IT applications in large parts of the industry. Such model-based approaches promise to shorten development times, improve quality and simplify the specification of technical requirements and their accessible representation in documented form. In addition, model-based methods allow the development of more convenient tools that offer sophisticated support mechanisms for modelling and programming applications based on model information.

This approach is not new - the ARIS concept (Architecture of Integrated Information Systems) from IDS-Scheer AG, for example, has been a tool-supported method for modelling complex information systems and then implementing them programmatically since the 1980s.

The aim of this thesis is to compare the ARIS and MDA approaches. To this end, the basics of ARIS and MDA as well as the available modelling methods are to be presented first. In addition, an overview of the degree of tool support available will be given. A prototypical example (e.g. a small online shop with a link to warehousing) will be used to show how modelling and implementation is carried out on the basis of the respective method. This will be followed by a critical evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of the respective approaches. In particular, the differences in the approach of the respective modelling concepts will be compared.

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