• DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-66302-9_2
• Corpus ID: 3725111

Using Workflows to Automate Activities in MDE Tools

@inproceedings{Gamboa2016UsingWT,
  title={Using Workflows to Automate Activities in MDE Tools},
  author={Miguel Andr{\'e}s Gamboa and Eugene Syriani},
  booktitle={International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development},
  year={2016}
}

• M. Gamboa, Eugene Syriani
• Published in
  International Conference on…
  19 February 2016
• Computer Science

Model-driven engineering (MDE) enables to generate software tools by systematically modeling and transforming this models. However, the usability of these tools is far from efficient. Common MDE activities, such as creating a domain-specific language, are non-trivial and often require repetitive tasks. This results in unnecessary increases of development time. The goal of this paper is to increase the productivity of modelers in their every day activities by automating the tasks they perform in current MDE tools. We propose an MDE-based solution where the user defines a reusable workflow that can be parametrized at run-time and executed. Our solution works for frameworks that support two level metamodeling as well as deep metamodeling. We implemented our solution in the MDE tool AToMPM. We also performed an empirical evaluation of our approach and showed that we reduce both mechanical and thinking efforts of the user. The ideas and concepts of this paper were introduced at the MODELSWARD conference [1] and are extended in this paper.