Concepts for the Development of a User-friendly Textual Concrete Syntax

Aus SDQ-Institutsseminar
Vortragende(r) Atilla Ateş
Vortragstyp Masterarbeit
Betreuer(in) Erik Burger
Termin Fr 11. Juli 2025, 11:30 (Raum 010 (Gebäude 50.34))
Vortragssprache Deutsch
Vortragsmodus in Präsenz
Kurzfassung Model-driven engineering (MDE) supports the development process by using domain-specific modeling languages (DSMLs). In industrial settings, DSMLs such as the one used in PREEvision often cover multiple domains, increasing their complexity and making it harder to define a user-friendly concrete syntax. The concrete syntax determines how elements of the abstract syntax are presented and directly impacts model quality and usability.

This thesis proposes an approach for defining a consistent and user-friendly textual concrete syntax. The approach is applied to a selected part of the modeling language of PREEvision. A user study was conducted to evaluate the textual syntax in comparison to the graphical one. The evaluation using the System Usability Scale (SUS) reveals that the textual syntax achieved a significantly higher usability score (Ø=76.25) than the graphical syntax (Ø=57.08), corresponding to a 33.6 % increase in perceived usability.