TITLE:
Evaluation of XIS-Mobile, a Domain Specific Language for Mobile Application Development
AUTHORS:
André Ribeiro, Alberto Rodrigues da Silva
KEYWORDS:
Evaluation of XIS-Mobile, a Domain Specific Language for Mobile Application Development
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Software Engineering and Applications,
Vol.7 No.11,
October
20,
2014
ABSTRACT: The great evolution of the
mobile market during the last years caused some fragmentation of the mobile
platforms namely through the existence of different programming languages and
software development tools for each platform. This fact can be an obstacle and
increases the development complexity and costs when we want to develop mobile
applications for multiple platforms. The XIS-Mobile domain specific language
(defined as a UML profile) and its MDD-based framework address this problem by
proposing platform-independent models to describe mobile applications and from
them automatically generate the application’s source code. Many issues arose
during an iterative process of evaluation which originated changes and the
evolution of XIS-Mobile. This paper presents the results of the evaluation of
XIS-Mobile (both the language and the companion framework) obtained through the
implementation of a case study and by conducting a user session, and discusses
its benefits and challenges.