Allowing end-users to participate within model-driven development approaches

Pérez, Fernánda; Valderas, Pedro; Fons, Joan

doi:10.1109/vlhcc.2011.6070397

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“…The presented story language abstracts over many technical issues that need to be handled within procedural and objectoriented code. This is in line and significantly extends modeldriven approaches to end-user development [20]. With the presented semantics, coding capabilities are shifted to the level of use cases traditionally used for specifying requirements.…”

Section: Conclusion: Evaluation and Future Workmentioning

confidence: 57%

Runtime semantics of use case stories

Śmiałek

Jarzebowski

Nowakowski

2012

2012 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)

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Direct end-user participation in software system construction necessitates bringing general-purpose programming activities to the level understandable by "laymen". This paper introduces a new software development approach where stories written in commonly understood structured natural language gain runtime semantics. Stories are precisely linked to domain concepts and actions, thus forming the application logic of the system. These constructs are written at a high level of abstraction, very close to detailed software requirements specifications. In fact, they are structured into familiar use case models that include special "invocation" relationships between use cases. At the same time, the paper proposes precise translational semantics for such defined stories. For each story element, equivalent Java code is derived. This semantics has been implemented within a tool containing a story editor and a code generator producing fully dynamic application logic code with Swing-based user interface. Ease of use of the new story language and usefulness of the generated Java code has been evaluated through student assignment projects.

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Section: Conclusion: Evaluation and Future Workmentioning

confidence: 57%

Runtime semantics of use case stories

Śmiałek

Jarzebowski

Nowakowski

2012

2012 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)

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“…As far as we know, existing MDE-based approaches do not target end-users as we do. However, end-users can participate in software modeling in cooperation with software professionals, provided they have development skills [Pérez et al, 2011]. In [Evers et al, 2014], a UML profile allows capturing variability in a humanreadable way that is understandable by non-experts.…”

Section: Contribution Of Mdementioning

confidence: 99%

Model-Driven Engineering for End-Users in the Loop in Smart Ambient Systems

Trouilhet¹,

Arcangeli²,

Bruel³

et al. 2021

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At the heart of cyber-physical and ambient systems, the user should permanently benefit from applications adapted to the situation and her/his needs. To do this, she/he must be able to configure her/his software environment and be supported as much as possible in that task. To this end, an intelligent “engine” assembles software components that are present in the ambient environment at the time and makes unanticipated applications emerge. The problem is to put the user “in the loop”, i.e., provide adapted and intelligible descriptions of the emerging applications, and present them so that the user can accept, modify or reject them. Besides, user feedback must be collected to feed the engine’s learning process. Our approach relies on Model-Driven Engineering (MDE). However, differently from the regular use of MDE tools and techniques by engineers to develop software and generate code, our focus is on end-users. Models of component assemblies are represented and made editable for them. Based on a metamodel that supports modeling and de- scription of component-based applications, a user interface provides multi-faceted representations of the emerging applications and captures user feedback. Our solution relies on several domain- specific languages and a transformation process, based on the established MDE tools (Gemoc studio, Eclipse Modeling Framework, EcoreTools, Sirius, Acceleo). It works in conjunction with the intelligent engine that builds the emerging applications and to which it provides learning data.

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“…The SELECT statement requires two clauses, a FROM and a WHERE. For example, we initialize the Components area of the extended model b editor by executing a domain-independent query that we have implemented [152] using EMFMQ, which is for selecting all the placement fragments of a given resource (the CVL variability model).…”

Section: Supporting Variability Management In Step 3 167mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We evaluated our method by applying it in an existing MDD process that address the development of pervasive systems [152]. As was introduced in Chapter 5, this process is PervML and provides a DSL that is focused on specifying heterogeneous services in concrete physical environments such as the services of a smart home.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We select these modeling techniques as example because their concepts are well-know even though the prominent application of Medem is for enabling the participation of users who may be actively involved in modeling tasks of an existing MDD process using a different modeling language (e.g., involving end-users in modeling tasks of an existing MDD process for 6.4. The Execution Phase 153 obtaining an unified system description of a smart home system[152]).…”

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