A modular model-driven engineering approach to reduce efforts in software development teams

摘要

Model-driven development (MDD) raises as one of the promising paradigms to solve classicaludsoftware development problems like bad estimation, low productivity and bad quality.udThe main goal of this work is to create a Model-driven software development tool calledudMoDev to reduce efforts in the process of developing applications. This tool focuses mainlyudon significant improvements in terms of productivity and quality, allowing developers toudmodel applications and generate a meaningful portion of code. MoDev requires predefinedudsoftware architectures as input and it does not only serves to improve some issues relatedudto software development, but it was also implemented to be easily extended and reusable.udAimed to achieve that, the tool is created following a proper methodology for this approach.udBy means of a case study, the promises of the MDD were confirmed elucidating importantudimprovements in terms of productivity, quality, maintainability and flexibility. However,udsome minor issues related to cultural challenges, the need of people with expertise in languageudengineering and training times were detected as well.