Experimentation of the Model Driven RichUbi Process in the Adaptive Rich Interfaces Development

Among the benefits of the Model Driven RichUbi process â€" proposed to support the construction of adaptive rich interfaces for context-sensitive ubiquitous applications â€" there are gains in efficiency of development teams by means of effort reduction and productivity increasing. This paper presents the results of an experimentation of the Model Driven RichUbi in the adaptive rich interfaces development against a not model-driven process based on the classic software life cycle. The experiment was conducted with groups of senior students from Computer Science and Computer Engineering undergraduate courses, in order to evaluate the teams' efficiency based on the data of development time and implemented lines of code collected during the processes execution. The results reported in this paper show that the groups which applied the Model Driven RichUbi process were, in general, faster and more productive for developing adaptive rich interfaces than the other groups.

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