Assessing the Quality of User-interface Modeling Languages

Model-Driven Development (MDD) is an approach that considers model as first citizen elements in the context of software development. Since there are so many modeling languages, there is a need to compare them and choose the best for each concrete situation. The selection of the most appropriate modeling language may influence the outputâ??s quality, whether it is only a set of models or software. This paper introduces ARENA, a framework that allows to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of modeling languages. Then we will apply ARENA to a specific subset of User-Interface Modeling Languages (namely UMLi, UsiXML, XIS and XIS-Mobile), taking into account some of their characteristics and the influence they have when models are generated.

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