Diversity of MDE Toolboxes and Their Uncommon Properties

• Paulo Gabriel Teixeira Universidade Federal de Goiás
• Bruno Gabriel Araújo Lebtag Universidade Federal de Goiás
• Fábio Paulo Basso Universidade Federal do Pampa

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/mssis.2020.12489

Resumo

Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) has reached some maturity. Due to that, a high diversity of technologies and platforms have emerged to support the resolution of a range of problems and contexts in which MDEis adopted as a solution. As a consequence, when some level of reuse of those artifacts (such as model transformations, Domain-Specific Languages(DSLs) and refinement tools), difficulties are faced due to the high diversity of formats in which all those assets are specified. Since we noted this trend, we decided to search for instances in the literature that supports our hypothesis of a high degree of diversity in MDE artifacts in the state of the practice. Thus, we carried out an exploratory literature review. As a result, we summarized key studies used as input to build a search string adopted to structure a future systematic literature review. Our study contributes by classifying nine types of MDE toolboxes with uncommon properties than those usually found in MDE workbenches.

Palavras-chave: Model-Driven Engineering, Tools, Literature Review

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