A model driven IDE for M-industries’ Alan

A model driven IDE for M-industries’ Alan

Van Schooten, S.
De Groot, E.

Schraverus, C. (mentor)
Larson, M.A. (mentor)
Hermans, F.F.J. (mentor)

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Software Technology

2015-10-02

While software is becoming increasingly important in our world, software development is also advancing with an increasing pace. One of the reasons is the increase in available information, which triggered the birth of a new programming paradigm: Model Driven Development (henceforth MDD). Though this can shorten the development time and make it easier, there is no real support for this method, and also no fully developed environment. This is where M-industries' Alan is key. A new MDD platform, but with no editor support. That was the initial scope of our project: create an editor capable of supporting Alan. This was no easy task, and so some preliminary research was done, which evaluates existing web-based editors based on the requirements set by us. The main development phase consisted of agile programming cycles where the targets and tasks were subject to changes. This enabled us to focus on creating an intrinsically correct system instead of a fully featured one that needs a lot of patching and cleaning. The result was a well rounded, integrated IDE that has powerful Alan specific features, but may lack some more basic editor features. The IDE was not only developed to aid in model driven development, but was actually developed itself in a model driven way, using M-industries' platform. This allowed for a deep integration with Alan, where the language definition became part of the IDE. To do this, the concept of an "editor state" was introduced, which proved to be an essential an powerful concept for creating an editor for model driven development.

language design
MDD
Model Driven Development
M-industries
IDE

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Student theses

bachelor thesis

(c) 2015 Van Schooten, S.
De Groot, E.