Constraints

Technical Constraints

The technical constraints are shown in Table 1.

Table 1 Technical Constraints Table

ID	Constraint	Description
Software and programming constraints
TC1	Programming Language	There’s no explicit constraint regarding the programming language to be used.
Operating system constraints
TC2	AGL distribution	The developed MDD methodology shall apply for developing for AGL Linux Distribution
Hardware Constraints
TC3	Memory friendly	The applications developed with the MDD approach shall consider good memory management practices.

Conventions

Finally, conventions used by this project are shown in Table 2.

Table 2 Organizational Constraints Table

ID	Constraint	Description
C1	Documentation	The documentation is written using the arc42 document structure and using Sphinx.
C2	Coding conventions	For C/C++ and Python (used for the MDD) development the coding styles used were the Linux Kernel coding style [8] and PEP8 [11], respectively.

[8]	Linux kernel coding style. URL: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding-style.html.

[11]	PEP 8 – Style Guide for Python Code. URL: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/.