Title
An empirical study of the state of the practice and acceptance of model-driven engineering in four industrial cases.
Abstract
Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) has been promoted for many years as a means for handling the complexity of software development by raising the abstraction level and automating labor-intensive and error-prone tasks. However, there is little empirical evidence of the acceptance of MDE in industry which is the subject of this paper. The goal of this empirical study was to investigate the state of the practice of applying MDE and factors considered as important for its adoption. The subjects were developers of four large companies participating in a research project. The collected data came from multiple sources and covered the results of tool evaluations, interviews, and a survey. Among the factors, we found perceived usefulness, ease of use and the maturity of the tools to be important determinants for the adoption of MDE. We also discuss challenges with adopting MDE and present suggestions on how to succeed with the adoption process.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/s10664-012-9196-x
Empirical Software Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
Model-driven engineering,Empirical study,Technology acceptance model,Qualitative study,Survey
Empirical evidence,Systems engineering,Model-driven architecture,Computer science,Technology acceptance model,Usability,Knowledge management,Abstraction layer,Qualitative research,Software development,Empirical research
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
1
1382-3256
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
47
1.41
9
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Parastoo Mohagheghi170736.90
Wasif Gilani225622.18
Alin Stefanescu320917.79
Miguel A. Fernández438031.84