Applying MDD in the Content Management System Domain: Scenarios and Empirical Assessment

Priefer, Dennis; Kneisel, P.; Rost, Wolf; Strüber, Daniel; Taentzer, Gabriele

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“…The most popular CMSs are Wordpress, Shopify, and Joomla [53]. Priefer et al [38] provide evidence that Joomla benefits from the application of MDD and emphasise recurrent scenarios. The most complex extension type in Joomla follows the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.…”

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“…As a third accomplishment, a contribution to the publication Applying MDD in the Content Management System Domain: Scenarios and Empirical Assessment [38] was made. In this publication, Priefer et al present a mixed-method empirical investigation of applying MDD in the CMS domain, based on an interview suite, a controlled experiment, and a field experiment.…”

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Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) found application in different domains. The development of Model-Driven Development (MDD) components is facilitated by a wealth of frameworks like EMF, Xtext, and Xtend. However, the development of the necessary IDE components still can take up to several weeks or even months until it can be used in a production environment. The first step during the development of such an MDD infrastructure is to analyse a set of reference applications to deduce the DSL used by the domain experts and the templates used in the generator. The analysis requires technical expertise and is usually performed by MDD infrastructure developers, who have to adhere to a close communication with domain experts and are exposed to high cognitive load and time-consuming tasks. The objective of this PhD project is to reduce the initial effort during the creation of new MDD infrastructure facilities for either a new domain or newly discovered platforms within a known domain. This should be made possible by the (semi-)automatic analysis of multiple codebases using Code Clone Detection (CCD) tools in a defined process flow. Code clones represent schematically redundant and generic code fragments which were found in the provided codebase. In the process, the key steps include (i) choosing appropriate reference applications (ii) distinguishing the codebase by clustering the files, (iii) reviewing the quality of the clusters, (iv) analysing the cluster by tailored CCD, and (v) transforming of the code clones, depending on the code clone type, to extract a DSL and the corresponding generator templates. CCS CONCEPTS • Information systems → Clustering; • Software and its engineering → Domain specific languages; Model-driven software engineering.

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“…The business process proposed by the researcher is the system notification business process. Business procedures are closely related to the sustainable management of company operations (Budiman & Akhlis, 2021;Priefer, Rost, Strüber, Taentzer, & Kneisel, 2021). It is hoped that adding a business process in the form of this notification can break the system's bottleneck, and the business's continuity can run.…”

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The Telegram notification system for improving library services Universitas Negeri Semarang

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The pandemic period limits every activity, including library services, causing the communication distance between users and librarians to widen. Users often forgetting to return books, so the fines accumulated, and often forget and lose borrowed books. The communication distance between librarians and library users can be narrowed through an automatic reminder system to remind users of important information regarding fines, services, and others. This study aimed to know the Telegram notification system for improving library services. Universitas Negeri Semarang also supports the use of Telegram as a notification system. This study applied the Research and Development (RnD) method in The Senayan Library Management System (SLiMS) development, supported by an integration method using Middleware Integration. The use of the paired t-test in this study showed that this reminder mechanism successfully informed library members of the time limit for borrowing books and late fees. A significant relationship exists between before and after the installation of Telegram as a useful reminder system to avoid the accumulation of fines by customers. This reminder system was also beneficial to avoid users accumulating fines, it can be seen that the number of users who are late in returning books is decreasing as the notification system is implemented. Good communication between librarians and customers through an information system intermediary improves user service.

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Applying MDD in the content management system domain

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Content management systems (CMSs) such as Joomla and WordPress dominate today’s web. Enabled by standardized extensions, administrators can build powerful web applications for diverse customer demands. However, developing CMS extensions requires sophisticated technical knowledge, and the complex code structure of an extension gives rise to errors during typical development and migration scenarios. Model-driven development (MDD) seems to be a promising paradigm to address these challenges; however, it has not found adoption in the CMS domain yet. Systematic evidence of the benefit of applying MDD in this domain could facilitate its adoption; however, an empirical investigation of this benefit is currently lacking. In this paper, we present a mixed-method empirical investigation of applying MDD in the CMS domain, based on an interview suite, a controlled experiment, a field experiment, and case studies. During the experiments, we used JooMDD, an MDD infrastructure instantiation for CMS extensions. This infrastructure, which is also presented in this work, consists of a DSL with model editors, code generators, and reverse engineering facilities. We consider three scenarios of developing new (both independent and dependent) CMS extensions and of migrating existing ones to a new major platform version. The experienced developers in our interviews acknowledge the relevance of these scenarios and report on experiences that render them suitable candidates for a successful application of MDD. We found a particularly high relevance of the migration scenario. Our experiments largely confirm the potentials and limits of MDD as identified for other domains. In particular, we found a productivity increase up to factor 11.7 and a quality increase up to factor 2.4 during the development of CMS extensions. Furthermore, our observations highlight the importance of good tooling that seamlessly integrates with already used tool environments and processes.

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Applying MDD in the Content Management System Domain: Scenarios and Empirical Assessment

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Mining of DSLs and generator templates from reference applications

Mining of DSLs and generator templates from reference applications

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