HDE-UITool: A Rapid Interactive Interface Prototype Generation Tool for Aircraft Design Software

In the requirement analysis phase of software engineering, an interactive interface prototype system can intuitively reflect the results of the current design and bring benefits for further requirements communication. Aircraft design software has the features of high number of input/output parameters and developing such a prototype system usually costs much time. According to the goals of rapidly designing and generating such an executable user interface (UI) prototype, based on the data model and XML technology, a rapid UI design and generation tool is represented. In this tool, functions of rapid data binding, interface customization are realized by the form designer and functions of automatic generation, dynamic modification and event handling are achieved by the UI generation engine. At last, an example is given to show that this tool can quickly and flexibly complete data binding, interface design and generation work, and greatly shorten the development time of the prototype system.