Web application development is a complex and time consuming process that involves di erent stakeholders (ranging from customers to developers); these applications have some unique characteristics like navigational access to information, sophisticated interaction features, etc. However, there have been few proposals to represent those requirements that are speci c to Web applications. Consequently, validation of requirements (e.g. in acceptance tests) is usually informal, and as a result troublesome. To overcome these problems, this PhD Thesis proposes WebSpec, a domain speci c language for specifying the most relevant and characteristic requirements of Web applications: those involving interaction and navigation. We describe WebSpec diagrams, discussing their abstraction and expressive power. As part of this work, we have created a test driven model based approach called WebTDD that gives a good framework for the language. Using the language with this approach we have test several of its features such as automatic test generation, management of changes in requirements, and improving the understanding of the diagrams through application simulation. This PhD Thesis is composed of a set of published and submitted papers. In order to write this PhD Thesis as a collection of papers, several requirements must be taken into account as stated by the University of Alicante. With regard to the content of the PhD Thesis, it must speci cally include a summary which is devoted to the description of initial hypotheses, research objectives, and the collection of publications itself, thus justifying its coherence. It should be underlined that this summary of the PhD Thesis must also include research results and nal conclusions. This summary corresponds to part I of this PhD Thesis (chapter 1 has been written in Spanish while chapter 2 is in English). This work has been partially supported by the following projects: MANTRA (GV/2011/035) from Valencia Ministry, MANTRA (GRE09-17) from the University of Alicante and by the MESOLAP (TIN2010-14860) project from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science. / Este trabajo ha sido parcialmente financiado por los siguientes proyectos: Mantra (GV/2011/035), Ministerio de Valencia, MANTRA (GRE09-17) de la Universidad de Alicante y por el MESOLAP (TIN2010-14860) proyecto del Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia de España.

El propósito de esta Tesis es llevar a cabo un proceso en el que se aplique la práctica de la integración continua en un desarrollo de software dirigido por modelos de forma eficiente, mediante el cual los desarrollos de software puedan beneficiarse conjuntamente de las mejoras y ventajas que proporcionan la aproximación de desarrollo de la ingeniería dirigida por modelos y la práctica de la integración continua. La aproximación de la ingeniería dirigida por modelos es el último salto natural de la ingeniería del software en cuanto a la búsqueda de métodos de desarrollo que elevan el nivel de abstracción hasta el punto en el que los expertos de un dominio de conocimiento, ajenos al mundo informático, son capaces de guiar y cambiar la lógica de los sistemas informáticos. La práctica de la integración continua es una recomendación de las principales metodologías de desarrollo, que tiene como objetivo la realización de integraciones automáticas del software en etapas tempranas del desarrollo, ofreciendo ventajas como la reducción del riesgo intrínseco que, dado su carácter temporal y único, tienen todos los proyectos. Con la unión de la ingeniería dirigida por modelos y de la práctica de la integración continua se busca ofrecer, a los equipos de desarrollo que trabajan utilizando algún tipo de iniciativa de la ingeniería dirigida por modelos, la posibilidad de integrar de forma continua y distribuida sus desarrollos. Al mismo tiempo, los clientes, verdaderos expertos del dominio de conocimiento en su ámbito de negocio, se benefician del aumento del nivel de abstracción de las técnicas de desarrollo para que ellos mismos, y de forma transparente, sean capaces de modificar su propio sistema informático sin la ayuda de personal técnico ajeno a su negocio, ahorrando así tiempo y costes. Para cumplir con el objetivo de esta Tesis doctoral se construye un prototipo que salva los impedimentos actuales que no permiten la unión entre estos dos nuevos activos de la ingeniería del software. Los principales problemas encontrados están relacionados con la selección de una iniciativa de desarrollo apropiada, los sistemas de control de versiones especialmente adaptados para trabajar con modelos, la generación incremental de artefactos a partir de modelos y la adaptación a las herramientas actuales de integración continua de forma optimizada. La separación del trabajo realizado en diferentes bloques permite ofrecer soluciones de forma tanto aislada como en conjunto, dando lugar a un trabajo iterativo e incremental de comienzo a fin. Para analizar las ventajas que ofrece la propuesta de este trabajo frente a otras posibilidades de desarrollo, se realiza una evaluación mediante la creación de diferentes casos de prueba en los que la medición de diferentes parámetros ofrecen una estimación numérica de las ventajas reales obtenidas. El análisis descriptivo, el contraste de hipótesis y las técnicas de regresión permiten una mejor interpretación de los resultados. Finalmente, se define el proceso, objetivo último de este trabajo, mediante la respuesta a diferentes preguntas planteadas, que facilitan su comprensión y entendimiento. / The purpose of this Thesis is to create a process in which the continuous integration practice can be applied to a model-driven software development in an e ective way, through which software developments can bene t jointly and simultaneously from the improvements and advantages provided by the model-driven engineering development approach and the continuous integration practice. The model-driven engineering approach is the last natural step of software engineering in the search for development approaches that raise the level of abstraction to the point that experts in a domain of knowledge, outside the computer world, are able to guide and change the logic of computer systems. The continuous integration practice is a recommendation of the most widely accepted development methodologies that aims to carry out automatic software integrations in early stages of development, o ering bene ts such as reducing the inherent risk that, given its unique nature, every project has. By merging the model-driven engineering and the continuous integration practice, the aim is to provide to development teams that work using some kind of model-driven engineering initiative, the possibility to integrate their developments in a continuous and distributed way. At the same time, customers, the real experts in the domain of knowledge in their eld of business, can bene t from the increased level of abstraction in developing techniques. Thus, they, in a transparent manner, are able to modify their own computer system without the help of external technical sta , so saving time and costs. To meet the objective of this Thesis, a prototype which saves all the current constraints that do not allow the union between these two new tools of software engineering is build. The main problems found were related to the selection of an appropriate development initiative, the version control systems specially adapted to working with models, the incremental generation of artifacts from models, and the optimized adaptation to existing continuous integration tools. The separation of work in di erent blocks can provide solutions, both in isolation or in conjunction, resulting in an iterative and incremental work from beginning to end. To analyze the bene ts of the proposal in this work compared to other development possibilities, an evaluation is performed by creating di erent test cases in which the measurement of di erent parameters can give a numerical estimate of the real bene ts obtained. The descriptive analysis, the hypothesis testing, and regression techniques allow a better interpretation of results. Finally, the process, the main objective of this work, is de ned by answering various questions posed to facilitate its comprehension and understanding.