Published date: Jan 30 2018

Journal Title: KnE Engineering

Issue title: Simposio Iberoamericano en Programación Informática (Ibero-American Symposium on Computer Programming)

Pages: 1-15

DOI: 10.18502/keg.v1i2.1483

Santiago P. Jácome-Guerrero

Elizabeth Salazar-Jácome

Wilson E. Sánchez-Ocaña

Rolando X. Salazar-Paredes

Juan M. Ferreira

Abstract. Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) is the notion that we can construct a model of a system that we can then transform into the real thing. The development of software in MDE using Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) has two phases. First, the development of artifacts such as DSLs and  transformation mechanisms by the modeling experts. Second, people non-technical experts (domain expert or end user) using the artifacts created develop applications simply because of the high level of abstraction allowed by technology. Several factors are considered to limit the use of MDE. One of them,  is the lack of knowledge the tools and the development activities with MDE. To support the MDE initiative, the present work makes a description of the theoretical foundations of MDE, also describes the main activities to build several MDE artifacts with some of the tools most known in this technology.

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