Simplicity-first model-based plug-in development
2013; Wiley; Volume: 44; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1002/spe.2243
ISSN1097-024X
AutoresStefan Naujokat, Johannes Neubauer, Anna-Lena Lamprecht, Bernhard Steffen, Sven Jörges, Tiziana Margaria,
Tópico(s)Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
ResumoIn this article, we present our experience with over a decade of strict simplicity orientation in the development and evolution of plug-ins. The point of our approach is to enable our graphical modeling framework jABC to capture plug-in development in a domain-specific setting. The typically quite tedious and technical plug-in development is shifted this way from a programming task to the modeling level, where it can be mastered also by application experts without programming expertise. We show how the classical plug-in development profits from a systematic domain-specific API design and how the level of abstraction achieved this way can be further enhanced by defining adequate building blocks for high-level plug-in modeling. As the resulting plug-in models can be compiled and deployed automatically, our approach decomposes plug-in development into three phases where only the realization phase requires plug-in-specific effort. By using our modeling framework jABC, this effort boils down to graphical, tool-supported process modeling. Furthermore, we support the automatic completion of process sketches for executability. All this will be illustrated along the most recent plug-in-based evolution of the jABC framework, which witnessed quite some bootstrapping effects. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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