scholarly journals Collaboro: a collaborative (meta) modeling tool

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. e84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo ◽  
Jordi Cabot
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
End Users ◽  
Tool Support ◽  
Modeling Languages ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Software Models ◽  
Trace Back ◽  
Domain Specific Modeling ◽  
Meta Modeling

Software development is becoming more and more collaborative, emphasizing the role of end-users in the development process to make sure the final product will satisfy customer needs. This is especially relevant when developing Domain-Specific Modeling Languages (DSMLs), which are modeling languages specifically designed to carry out the tasks of a particular domain. While end-users are actually the experts of the domain for which a DSML is developed, their participation in the DSML specification process is still rather limited nowadays. In this paper, we propose a more community-aware language development process by enabling the active participation of all community members (both developers and end-users) from the very beginning. Our proposal, called Collaboro, is based on a DSML itself enabling the representation of change proposals during the language design and the discussion (and trace back) of possible solutions, comments and decisions arisen during the collaboration. Collaboro also incorporates a metric-based recommender system to help community members to define high-quality notations for the DSMLs. We also show how Collaboro can be used at the model-level to facilitate the collaborative specification of software models. Tool support is available both as an Eclipse plug-in a web-based solution.

scholarly journals Collaboro: A collaborative (Meta) modeling tool

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo ◽  
Jordi Cabot
Keyword(s):  
End Users ◽  
Modeling Languages ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Software Models ◽  
Domain Specific Modeling ◽  
Meta Modeling ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Specific Modeling

Software development processes are collaborative in nature. Neglecting the key role of end-users leads to software unlikely to satisfy their needs. This collaboration becomes specially important when creating Domain-Specific Modeling Languages (DSMLs), which are (modeling) languages specifically designed to carry out the tasks of a particular domain. While end-users are actually the experts of the domain for which a DSML is developed, their participation in the DSML specification process is still rather limited nowadays. In this paper, we propose a more community-aware language development process by enabling the active participation of all community members (both developers and end-users of the DSML) from the very beginning. Our proposal is based on a DSML itself, called Collaboro, which allows representing change proposals on the DSML design and discussing (and tracing back) possible solutions, comments and decisions arisen during the collaboration. Collaboro also incorporates a metric-based recommender system to help community members to define high-quality notations for the DSMLs. We also show how Collaboro can be used at the model-level to facilitate the collaborative specification of software models.

scholarly journals Collaboro: A collaborative (Meta) modeling tool

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo ◽  
Jordi Cabot
Keyword(s):  
End Users ◽  
Modeling Languages ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Software Models ◽  
Domain Specific Modeling ◽  
Meta Modeling ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Specific Modeling

Software development processes are collaborative in nature. Neglecting the key role of end-users leads to software unlikely to satisfy their needs. This collaboration becomes specially important when creating Domain-Specific Modeling Languages (DSMLs), which are (modeling) languages specifically designed to carry out the tasks of a particular domain. While end-users are actually the experts of the domain for which a DSML is developed, their participation in the DSML specification process is still rather limited nowadays. In this paper, we propose a more community-aware language development process by enabling the active participation of all community members (both developers and end-users of the DSML) from the very beginning. Our proposal is based on a DSML itself, called Collaboro, which allows representing change proposals on the DSML design and discussing (and tracing back) possible solutions, comments and decisions arisen during the collaboration. Collaboro also incorporates a metric-based recommender system to help community members to define high-quality notations for the DSMLs. We also show how Collaboro can be used at the model-level to facilitate the collaborative specification of software models.

Evaluation of MDE Tools from a Metamodeling Perspective

2011 ◽  
pp. 105-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
João de Sousa Saraiva ◽  
Alberto Rodrigues da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Graphical Models ◽  
Tool Support ◽  
Modeling Languages ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Abstraction Level ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Domain Specific Modeling ◽  
Small Set ◽  
Specific Modeling

Ever since the introduction of computers into society, researchers have been trying to raise the abstraction level at which we build software programs. We are currently adopting an abstraction level based on graphical models instead of source code: MDE. MDE is the driving force for some recent modeling languages and approaches, such as OMG’s UML or Domain-Specific Modeling. All these approaches are founded on metamodeling: defining languages that represent a problem-domain. A key factor for the success of any approach is appropriate tool support. However, only recently have tool creators started considering metamodeling as an important issue in their list of concerns. In this paper, we evaluate a small set of MDE tools from the perspective of the metamodeling activity, focusing on both architectural and practical aspects. Then, using the results of this evaluation, we discuss open research issues for MDE-based software development tools.

scholarly journals A Tool Support for Model-Driven Development: An Industrial Case Study from a Measurement Domain

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (21) ◽  
pp. 4553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomaž Kos ◽  
Marjan Mernik ◽  
Tomaž Kosar
Keyword(s):  
End Users ◽  
Tool Support ◽  
Modeling Languages ◽  
End User ◽  
Industrial Case Study ◽  
Model Driven Development ◽  
Domain Experts ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
End User Programming ◽  
Domain Specific Modeling

End-user programming may utilize Domain-Specific Modeling Languages (DSMLs) to develop applications in the form of models, using only abstractions found in a specific problem domain. Indeed, the productivity benefits reported from Model-Driven Development (MDD) are hard to ignore, and a number of MDD solutions are flourishing. However, not all stories from industry on MDD are successful. End-users, without having software development skills, are more likely to introduce software errors than professional programmers. In this study, we propose and encourage other DSML developers to extend the development of DSML with tool support. We believe the programming tools (e.g., debugger, testing tool, refactoring tool) are also needed for end-users to ensure the proper functioning of the products they develop. It is imperative that domain experts are provided with tools that work on the abstraction level that is familiar to them. In this paper, an industrial experience is presented for building various tools for usage in MDD. Debugger, automated testing infrastructure, refactoring, and other tools were implemented for Sequencer, a DSML. Our experience with the implementation of tool support for MDD confirms that these tools are indispensable for end-user programming in practice, and that implementing those tools might not be as costly as expected.

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