Abstract. Corporate software development faces very demanding challenges, especially concerning the design of user interfaces. Collaborative design with stakeholders demands modeling methods that everybody can understand and apply. But when using traditional, paper-based methods to gather and document requirements, an IT organization often experiences frustrating communication issues between the business and development teams. We present ways of implementing model-driven prototyping for corporate software development. Without harming agile principles and practice, detailed prototypes can be employed for collaborative design. Model-driven prototyping beats a new path towards visual specifications and the substitution of paper-based artifacts.
Today metamodeling and domain-specific languages represent many promising beginnings to create non-generic tool support for project specific modeling tasks. Due to the inherent complexity and numerous variants of human-machine interfaces (HMIs) model-driven development becomes increasingly interesting for manufacturers and suppliers in the automobile industry. Particularly, the development of powerful user interfaces requires appropriate development processes as well as easy-to-use software tools. Since suitable tool kits are missing in the field of HMI development this paper describes the utilization of visual domain-specific languages for model-driven useware engineering in general and model-based specification of automotive HMIs in special. Moreover, results from a survey among developers are presented revealing the requirements for HMI specific tool support. Additionally, experiences with using current meta-CASE tools as well as standard office applications for creating a visual domain-specific language are presented. Based on these experiences requirements for future meta-CASE tools are derived.
Today metamodeling and domain-specific languages represent many promising beginnings to create nongeneric tool support for individual modelling tasks. Due to the inherent complexity and numerous variants of human-machine interfaces (HMIs) model-driven development becomes increasingly interesting for manufacturers and suppliers in the automtive industry. Particularly, the development of powerful user interfaces requires appropriate development processes as well as easy-to-use software tools. Since suitable tool kits are missing in the field of HMI development this paper describes the utilization of visual domain-specific languages for model-driven useware engineering in general and model-based specification of automotive HMIs in special. Moreover, results from a survey among developers are presented revealing the requirements for HMI specific tool support. Additionally, experiences with using current meta-CASE tools as well as standard office applications for creating a visual domain-specific language are presented. Based on these experiences requirements for future meta-CASE tools are derived.
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