Integrating Model-Based And Task-Based Approaches To User Interface Generation

Software Engineering community has been interested in defining methods and processes to develop software by specifying its data and behavior, but disregarding user interaction. Human-Computer Interaction community has defined techniques oriented to the modeling of the interaction between the user and the system, proposing user-oriented software constructions. In this paper, we show how to lay proper bridges between both visions, by integrating a CTT task model into a sound, model-based software development process. This proposal is underpinned by the MDA-based technology OlivaNova Method Execution, which makes software generation a reality, while still taking the user interaction needs into account

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