Improving the Developer Experience with a Low-Code Process Modelling Language

Henriques, Henrique Oliveira; Lourenço, Hugo; Amaral, Vasco; Goulão, Miguel

doi:10.1145/3239372.3239387

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“…According to the authors, RESTsec enables developers to embed the desired access control policy and generate the service, the security infrastructure, and the code in a rapid and automated way. Another of the results related to low-code aspects is focused on the domain-specific languages (DSLs) used in the development environment of OutSystems Platform (Boston, MA, USA) [21]. In this case, authors study the problematic of the DSLs for process modelling (business process technology, BPT), as it has a low adoption rate and is perceived as having usability problems hampering its adoption.…”

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Low-Code as Enabler of Digital Transformation in Manufacturing Industry

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Currently, enterprises have to make quick and resilient responses to changing market requirements. In light of this, low-code development platforms provide the technology mechanisms to facilitate and automate the development of software applications to support current enterprise needs and promote digital transformation. Based on a theory-building research methodology through the literature and other information sources review, the main contribution of this paper is the current characterisation of the emerging low-code domain following the foundations of the computer-aided software engineering field. A context analysis, focused on the current status of research related to the low-code development platforms, is performed. Moreover, benchmarking among the existing low-code development platforms addressed to manufacturing industry is analysed to identify the current lacking features. As an illustrative example of the emerging low-code paradigm and respond to the identified uncovered features, the virtual factory open operating system (vf-OS) platform is described as an open multi-sided low-code framework able to manage the overall network of a collaborative manufacturing and logistics environment that enables humans, applications, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices to seamlessly communicate and interoperate in the interconnected environment, promoting resilient digital transformation.

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Low-Code as Enabler of Digital Transformation in Manufacturing Industry

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“…Finally, Santos et al [39] concluded that the semantic transparency of the prototyping symbol set was significantly higher than the standard one. Henriques et al [40] followed the same steps of Santos et al [39] to recreate the symbols of the Low-Code Process Modelling Language. Both works Santos et al [39] and Henriques et al [40] are similar to our work once they are based on Caire et al [12] design, but they were not used in the context of extensions of modelling languages.…”

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“…Henriques et al [40] followed the same steps of Santos et al [39] to recreate the symbols of the Low-Code Process Modelling Language. Both works Santos et al [39] and Henriques et al [40] are similar to our work once they are based on Caire et al [12] design, but they were not used in the context of extensions of modelling languages. The use of eye-tracking devices has been used in recent research involving analysis of requirements models.…”

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Using empirical studies to mitigate symbol overload in iStar extensions

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Modelling languages are frequently extended to include new constructs to be used together with the original syntax. New constructs may be proposed by adding textual information, such as UML stereotypes, or by creating new graphical representations. Thus, these new symbols need to be expressive and proposed in a careful way to increase the extension's adoption. A method to create symbols for the original constructs of a modelling language was proposed and has been used to create the symbols when a new modelling language is designed. We argue this method can be used to recommend new symbols for the extension's constructs. However, it is necessary to make some adjustments since the new symbols will be used with the existing constructs of the modelling language original syntax. In this paper, we analyse the usage of this adapted method to propose symbols to mitigate the occurrence of overloaded symbols in the existing iStar extensions. We analysed the existing iStar extensions in an SLR and identified the occurrence of symbol overload among the existing constructs. We identified a set of fifteen overloaded symbols in existing iStar extensions. We used these concepts with symbol overload in a multi-stage experiment that involved users in the visual notation design process. The study involved 262 participants, and its results revealed that most of the new graphical representations were better than those proposed by the extensions, with regard to semantic transparency. Thus, the new representations can be used to mitigate this kind of conflict in iStar extensions. Our results suggest that next extension efforts should consider user-generated notation design techniques in order to increase the semantic transparency.

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“…Low-code development platforms are seen as advanced IDEs which employ drag-and-drop software components and visual interfaces to replace extensive coding. They provide higher levels of abstraction that allow a major reduction in hand-coding to develop an application by means of high-level visual modeling languages [86]. This paradigm shift in software development may also require a change in the way we assess critical properties of a software project, such as quality, maintainability, and evolvability.…”

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“…Low-code development platforms are seen as advanced IDEs which employ drag-and-drop software components and visual interfaces to replace extensive coding. With high-level visual modeling languages, they provide higher levels of abstraction that allow a major reduction in hand-coding to develop an application[86]. In the extreme case we have no-code development where, by definition, textual programming is banned, giving rise to the so-called citizen developers.…”

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Software Development Process Mining: Discovery, Conformance Checking and Enhancement

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Abreu

2016

2016 10th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC)

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Context. Modern software projects require the proper allocation of human, technical and financial resources. Very often, project managers make decisions supported only by their personal experience, intuition or simply by mirroring activities performed by others in similar contexts. Most attempts to avoid such practices use models based on lines of code, cyclomatic complexity or effort estimators, thus commonly supported by software repositories which are known to contain several flaws.Objective. Demonstrate the usefulness of process data and mining methods to enhance the software development practices, by assessing efficiency and unveil unknown process insights, thus contributing to the creation of novel models within the software development analytics realm.Method. We mined the development process fragments of multiple developers in three different scenarios by collecting Integrated Development Environment (IDE) events during their development sessions. Furthermore, we used process and text mining to discovery developers' workflows and their fingerprints, respectively.Results. We discovered and modeled with good quality developers' processes during programming sessions based on events extracted from their IDEs. We unveiled insights from coding practices in distinct refactoring tasks, built accurate software complexity forecast models based only on process metrics and setup a method for characterizing coherently developers' behaviors. The latter may ultimately lead to the creation of a catalog of software development process smells.Conclusions. Our approach is agnostic to programming languages, geographic location or development practices, making it suitable for challenging contexts such as in modern global software development projects using either traditional IDEs or sophisticated low/no code platforms.

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Improving the Developer Experience with a Low-Code Process Modelling Language

Cited by 24 publications

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Low-Code as Enabler of Digital Transformation in Manufacturing Industry

Low-Code as Enabler of Digital Transformation in Manufacturing Industry

Using empirical studies to mitigate symbol overload in iStar extensions

Software Development Process Mining: Discovery, Conformance Checking and Enhancement

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