A Summary of Toolboxes Scoping MDWE Front-Ends

• Jean Piagetti UNIPAMPA
• Maurício El Uri UNIPAMPA
• Fábio Basso UNIPAMPA

Abstract

This paper characterizes 27 studies, published between 2005 and 2017, scoping the development of web front-ends through toolboxes for ModelDriven Web Engineering (MDWE). It addresses Domain Specific Languages (DSLs), embedded with some design techniques, devoted to help in the various phases of software development. Moreover, it also contextualizes model-based tools for rapid prototyping, with evolutive prototyping and source code generation, and highligths those that speed-up the analysis process through automated design. Our conclusion is that only six of these proposals have been reported to be used in industry, thus a limitation found in the literature of the area that hinders the understanding of the acceptance criteria of these tools in contexts of software factories.

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