Lessons learned from evaluating MDE abstractions in an industry field study

Authors:
Adrian Kuhn;Gail C. Murphy
Affiliations:
University of British Columbia;University of British Columbia
Venue:
Proceedings of the Second Edition of the International Workshop on Experiences and Empirical Studies in Software Modelling
Year:
2012

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Abstract

In a recent empirical study we found that evaluating abstractions of model-driven engineering (MDE) is not as straight forward as it might seem. In this paper, we report on the challenges that we as researchers faced when we conducted the aforementioned field study. In our study we found that modeling happens within a complex ecosystem of different people working in different roles. An empirical evaluation should thus mind the ecosystem, that is, focus on both technical and human factors. In the following, we present and discuss five lessons learnt from our recent work.