Including Functional Usability Features in a Model-Driven Development Method

• Published in: Computer Science and Information Systems
• Main Authors: Panach Navarrete, José Ignacio, Juristo Juzgado, Natalia, Pastor López, Oscar
• Other Authors: Universitat Politècnica de València. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación - Departament de Sistemes Informàtics i Computació, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Generalitat Valenciana, Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio, Universitat de València, European Regional Development Fund
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: ComSIS Consortium 2013
• Subjects: Model-driven development; Usability; Conceptual model; LENGUAJES Y SISTEMAS INFORMATICOS; Navarrete; Orca
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10251/44003; https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS120213016P

The Software Engineering (SE) community has historically focused on working with models to represent functionality and persistence, pushing interaction modelling into the background, which has been covered by the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) community. Recently, adequately modelling interaction, and specifically usability, is being considered as a key factor for success in user acceptance, making the integration of the SE and HCI communities more necessary. If we focus on the Model-Driven Development (MDD) paradigm, we notice that there is a lack of proposals to deal with usability features from the very first steps of software development process. In general, usability features are manually implemented once the code has been generated from models. This contradicts the MDD paradigm, which claims that all the analysts effort must be focused on building models, and the code generation is relegated to model to code transformations. Moreover, usability features related to functionality may involve important changes in the system architecture if they are not considered from the early steps. We state that these usability features related to functionality can be represented abstractly in a conceptual model, and their implementation can be carried out automatically. This work has been developed with the support of MICINN (PROS-Req TIN2010-19130-C02-02, TIN2011-23216), UV (UV-INV-PRECOMP12-80627), GVA (ORCA PROMETEO /2009 /015), and co-financed with ERDF. We also acknowledge the support of the ITEA2 Call 3 UsiXML (20080026) and funding by the MITYC under the project TSI-020400-2011-20. Panach Navarrete, JI.; Juristo Juzgado, N.; Pastor López, O. (2013). Including Functional Usability Features in a Model-Driven Development Method. Computer Science and Information Systems. 10(3):999-1024. https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS120213016P S 999 1024 10 3