Towards an experimental framework for measuring usability of model-driven tools

  • Authors:

  • Jose Ignacio Panach;Nelly Condori-Fernández;Arthur Baars;Tanja Vos;Ignacio Romeu;Óscar Pastor

  • Affiliations:

  • Centro de Investigación en Métodos de Producción de Software ProS, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain;Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands;Centro de Investigación en Métodos de Producción de Software ProS, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain;Centro de Investigación en Métodos de Producción de Software ProS, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain;Centro de Investigación en Métodos de Producción de Software ProS, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain;Centro de Investigación en Métodos de Producción de Software ProS, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain

  • Venue:
  • INTERACT'11 Proceedings of the 13th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-computer interaction - Volume Part IV
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

According to the Model-Driven Development (MDD) paradigm, analysts can substantially improve the software development process concentrating their efforts on a conceptual model, which can be transformed into code by means of transformation rules applied by a model compiler. However, MDD tools are not widely used in industry. One of the reasons for this poor adoption is the lack of usability of MDD tools. This paper presents a framework to evaluate the usability of such tools. The framework will be used as a basis for a family of experiments to get clear insights into the barriers to usability that prevent MDD tools from being widely adopted in industry.