A Comparative Analysis of Graph Transformation Engines for User Interface Development

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Juan Manuel González Calleros ; Adrian Stanciulescu ; Jean Vanderdonckt ; Jean-Pierre Delacre ; Marco Winckler

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来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

In software engineering, transformational development aims at developing software systems by transforming a coarse-grained specification to finalcode through a sequence of small transformation steps. This transformational development method has followed a long tradition of establishing models and maintaining mappings between them so as to create and maintain accurate specifications of a user interface. User Interface mappings are also relevant to webengineering. We have been working not just User Interface mappings for web-based systems but as well for Information Systems in general. However, we havebeen confronted to the mapping problem as the use of an appropriate transformation tool it still an issue in our research group. Although several transformationengines support mappings a transformation engine capable of supporting a transformational approach for ensuring model-driven engineering of user interfaces isstill an open issue. This paper provides a comparative analysis of transformationengines ranging from publicly or commercially available engines to be adapted tothe mapping problem to hand-coded transformation engines that we developed forthe sole purpose of supporting the mapping problem. The results of the comparison let authors to identify the type of transformation engine that fits better to their skills, needs and preferences.