Sirius: A rapid development of DSM graphical editor

Abstract

Looking through the history of software development there are two mutually agreed factors used for software process and product effectiveness measurement: the level of abstraction and the level of reusability. The essential goals, among many, that have to be achieved are: increasing developer's productivity, decreasing cost (in time and money) of software construction while preserving desired quality level and improving software reusability and maintainability. Model Driven Software Development (MDSD), which is generally based on the model-centric approach to software development, appears as a challenging paradigm. MDSD is focused on the creation of semantically rich models concerning problem and solution domains while leaving the execution domain to the model based code generators. Created models are often based on a graphical representation and supported by graphical design tools, which, in the most common case, can't be universal. Depending on problem-domain, and based on Domain-Specific Model (DSM) appropriate graphical editing tool must be created. In this paper the emphasis is put on Sirius framework for developing a DSM Graphical Editor, which simplifies the product specification, reduces design time and rapidly increases the overall productivity. The main advantages of Sirius framework usage have been illustrated by the creation of a RESTful Sensor Web Network Editor.