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According to the Model-Driven Development (MDD) paradigm, analysts can substantially improve the software development process concentrating their efforts on a conceptual model, which can be transformed into code by means of transformation rules applied by a model compiler. However, MDD tools are not widely used in industry. One of the reasons for this poor adoption is the lack of usability of MDD tools. This paper presents a framework to evaluate the usability of such tools. The framework will be used as a basis for a family of experiments to get clear insights into the barriers to usability that prevent MDD tools from being widely adopted in industry.
This work has been developed with the support of MICINN, GVA and ITEA 2 call under the projects PROS-Req (TIN2010-19130-C02-02), ORCA (PROMETEO/2009/ 015) and UsiXML (20080026).
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Panach, J.I., Condori-Fernández, N., Baars, A., Vos, T., Romeu, I., Pastor, Ó. (2011). Towards an Experimental Framework for Measuring Usability of Model-Driven Tools. In: Campos, P., Graham, N., Jorge, J., Nunes, N., Palanque, P., Winckler, M. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2011. INTERACT 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6949. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23768-3_102
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