Measuring the effort for creating and using domain-specific models

Wu, Yali; Hernandez, Frank; Ortega, Francisco R.; Clarke, Peter J.

doi:10.1145/2060329.2060360

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“…The proliferation of modeling languages, tools, and techniques makes it hard for users to commit to using MDE. Even after a suitable language and tool have been identified, the users face significant usability challenges [24][42] [52], e.g., steep learning curves, arduous user interfaces, and difficulty with migrating models from one version of a tool to the next. Despite the fact that software development is a team activity, there is little effective tool support for collaborative modeling.…”

Section: Major Current Problems In Model-driven Engineeringmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Relevance of Model-Driven Engineering Thirty Years from Now

Mussbacher

Amyot

Breu

et al. 2014

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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OATAO is an open access repository that collects the work of Toulouse researchers and makes it freely available over the web where possible. This is an author-deposited version published in : http://oatao. Abstract. Although model-driven engineering (MDE) is now an established approach for developing complex software systems, it has not been universally adopted by the software industry. In order to better understand the reasons for this, as well as to identify future opportunities for MDE, we carried out a week-long design thinking experiment with 15 MDE experts. Participants were facilitated to identify the biggest problems with current MDE technologies, to identify grand challenges for society in the near future, and to identify ways that MDE could help to address these challenges. The outcome is a reflection of the current strengths of MDE, an outlook of the most pressing challenges for society at large over the next three decades, and an analysis of key future MDE research opportunities.

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Section: Major Current Problems In Model-driven Engineeringmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Relevance of Model-Driven Engineering Thirty Years from Now

Mussbacher

Amyot

Breu

et al. 2014

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…Among them, there is the ''size of the metamodel'', which is based on counting the number of constructs. Finally, Wu et al (2010) describe a list of metrics measuring the development effort in DS modelling. Among them are the ''size of model'' (SOM) and the ''closeness to mapping ratio'' (COMR).…”

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Measuring the complexity of domain-specific languages developed using MDD

Slivnik

2015

Software Qual J

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The standard ISO/IEC 25010 (SQuaRE) defines appropriateness as one of the three components of functional suitability, the other two components being completeness and correctness. As users of domain-specific language (DSL) are quite often domain experts with limited programming skills, a DSL might be considered appropriate if the resulting domain-specific programs do not contain an excessive amount of nondomainrelated programming elements. This paper describes a metric for measuring the appropriateness of DSLs that are developed using model-driven development (MDD), its evaluation and use. The metric measures the depth of the deepest domain-specific command within abstract syntax trees generated by a DSL. It is aimed at being used during the development of a new DSL and for comparing different DSLs defined over the same domain. It is assumed that during MDD, the metamodel describes the domain-independent part of the DSL, while the model supplies the domain-specific part. This resembles the implementation of DSLs using existing metaprogramming tools that provide off-the-shelf implementations of programming constructs but require manual implementation of the domain-specific language elements.

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“…Although these general-purpose languages could conceivably be used in place of WF-CML, the effort required to use them could be significantly greater than a DSML that provides the needed abstractions as first-class elements of the language [16]. Also, these languages produce complete workflow solutions, such as assigning activity ownerships and specifying the interaction between workflow engines and external applications, that are not always necessary [17]. For instance, we could integrate an existing workflow language with the CML.…”

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“…We chose YAWL in our study given its mature theoretical background, tooling support and easy access to its artifacts. We have started to explore a more comprehensive set of metrics to compare models developed using other DSMLs [17] e.g., BPEL [14] and Microsoft Workflow Foundation [20].…”

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A DSML for Coordinating User-Centric Communication Services

Hernandez

Clarke

2011

2011 IEEE 35th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference

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Rapid advances in electronic communication devices and technologies have resulted in a shift in the way communication applications are being developed. The emerging development strategies provide end-users with a greater ability to manipulate the underlying communication technologies by providing the appropriate level of abstraction, referred to as usercentric communication. In communication-intensive domains such as telemedicine and disaster management, the user-centric communication strategies still lack the ability to coordinate the various communication services in collaborative processes.In this paper, we present a domain-specific modeling language (DSML), Workflow Communication Modeling Language (WF-CML), that supports the rapid realization of collaborative user-centric communication applications. WF-CML is an extension of CML with communication specific abstractions of workflow concepts. To realize WF-CML models the dynamic synthesis process in the Communication Virtual Machine (CVM) prototype was extended to coordinate the negotiation and media transfer processes based on events generated during the collaboration. We also present a comparative study to show the advantage of using WF-CML over a general-purpose workflow language and execution environment.

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Measuring the effort for creating and using domain-specific models

Cited by 18 publications

References 15 publications

The Relevance of Model-Driven Engineering Thirty Years from Now

The Relevance of Model-Driven Engineering Thirty Years from Now

Measuring the complexity of domain-specific languages developed using MDD

A DSML for Coordinating User-Centric Communication Services

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