Evaluating user interface generation approaches: model-based versus model-driven development

Advances in software design possibilities have led to a growing interest in the study of user interfaces (UIs). Many Model-Based User Interface Development Environments (MB-UIDEs) have been proposed to deal with the generation of the UIs (semi-) automatically by using models with different levels of...

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Vydáno v:Software and systems modeling Ročník 18; číslo 4; s. 2753 - 2776
Hlavní autoři: Ruiz, Jenny, Serral, Estefanía, Snoeck, Monique
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.08.2019
Springer Nature B.V
Témata:
Co-design
Compilers
Computer Science
Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)
Interpreters
IT in Business
Literature reviews
Logic design
Programming Languages
Programming Techniques
Regular Paper
Software Engineering
Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems
User interface
User interfaces
Model-based user interface software tools
Integration with application development
User interface generation
Model-driven development
ISSN:1619-1366, 1619-1374
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Shrnutí:Advances in software design possibilities have led to a growing interest in the study of user interfaces (UIs). Many Model-Based User Interface Development Environments (MB-UIDEs) have been proposed to deal with the generation of the UIs (semi-) automatically by using models with different levels of abstraction. Often, this generation is limited to the UI part of an application. However, achieving true model-driven development (MDD) requires the co-development of application and UI and, hence, needs to go a step further. This paper analyzes a large set of existing MB-UIDEs, evaluates, from a critical perspective, to what extent they can be considered full MDD environments, and adequately addresses the co-design of UI and application. Following the guidelines proposed by Kitchenham and Charters (Engineering 2, 2007 ), we performed a systematic literature review. A total of 96 papers were examined. Based on these papers, an assessment framework containing 10 criteria with specific metrics to evaluate MB-UIDEs was defined and 30 different environments were evaluated following these criteria. The evaluation identifies several gaps in the existing state of the art and highlights the areas of promising improvement. The evaluation shows that, although a strong progress has being achieved over the last years, the existing environments do not yet fully exploit the benefits and potentialities of MDD, nor do they adequately integrate UI design with application logic design and generation. Further research needs to be done to support the MDD of UIs and the co-design of the underlying application. The difficulty of use of the existing MB-UIDEs, the lack of UI design flexibility, and the lack of complete and integrated development support are the main research gaps that need to be addressed.
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ISSN:1619-1366
1619-1374
DOI:10.1007/s10270-018-0698-x