Authors:
Francisco Morais
1
and
Alberto Rodrigues da Silva
2
Affiliations:
1
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
;
2
Universidade de Lisboa and INESC— ID, Portugal
Keyword(s):
Appropriateness, Domain-specific Languages, Evaluation, Quality, User-interface Modeling Languages.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Model Driven Architectures and Engineering
Abstract:
Model-Driven Development (MDD) is an approach that considers model as first citizen elements in the context
of software development. Since there are so many modeling languages, there is a need to compare them and
choose the best for each concrete situation. The selection of the most appropriate modeling language may
influence the output’s quality, whether it is only a set of models or software.
This paper introduces ARENA, a framework that allows to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of modeling
languages. Then we will apply ARENA to a specific subset of User-Interface Modeling Languages (namely
UMLi, UsiXML, XIS and XIS-Mobile), taking into account some of their characteristics and the influence
they have when models are generated.