Taking advantage of the software product line paradigm to generate customized user interfaces for decision-making processes: a case study on university employability

[EN]University employment and, specifically, employability has gained relevance since research in these fields can lead to improvement in the quality of life of individual citizens. However, empirical research is still insufficient to make significant decisions, and relying on powerful tools to expl...

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Autores: García-Peñalvo, Francisco J., Therón Sánchez, Roberto, Vázquez Ingelmo, Andrea
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)
Repositorio:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca
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Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:SPL
DSL
Domain engineering
Dashboards
Employability
Code generation
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spelling Taking advantage of the software product line paradigm to generate customized user interfaces for decision-making processes: a case study on university employabilityGarcía-Peñalvo, Francisco J.Therón Sánchez, RobertoVázquez Ingelmo, AndreaSPLDSLDomain engineeringDashboardsEmployabilityCode generation1203.17 Informática[EN]University employment and, specifically, employability has gained relevance since research in these fields can lead to improvement in the quality of life of individual citizens. However, empirical research is still insufficient to make significant decisions, and relying on powerful tools to explore data and reach insights on these fields is paramount. Information dashboards play a key role in analyzing and visually exploring data about a specific topic or domain, but end users can present several necessities that differ from each other, regarding the displayed information itself, design features and even functionalities. By applying a domain engineering approach (within the software product line paradigm), it is possible to produce customized dashboards to fit into particular requirements, by the identification of commonalities and singularities of every product that could be part of the product line. Software product lines increase productivity, maintainability and traceability regarding the evolution of the requirements, among other benefits. To validate this approach, a case study of its application in the context of the Spanish Observatory for University Employability and Employment system has been developed, where users (Spanish universities and administrators) can control their own dashboards to reach insights about the employability of their graduates. These dashboards have been automatically generated through a domain specific language, which provides the syntax to specify the requirements of each user. The domain language fuels a template-based code generator, allowing the generation of the dashboards' source code. Applying domain engineering to the dashboards' domain improves the development and maintainability of these complex software products given the variety of requirements that users might have regarding their graphical interfaces.201920192019info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10366/139735reponame:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamancainstname:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)InglésAtribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:gredos.usal.es:10366/1397352026-06-07T06:28:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Taking advantage of the software product line paradigm to generate customized user interfaces for decision-making processes: a case study on university employability
title Taking advantage of the software product line paradigm to generate customized user interfaces for decision-making processes: a case study on university employability
spellingShingle Taking advantage of the software product line paradigm to generate customized user interfaces for decision-making processes: a case study on university employability
García-Peñalvo, Francisco J.
SPL
DSL
Domain engineering
Dashboards
Employability
Code generation
1203.17 Informática
title_short Taking advantage of the software product line paradigm to generate customized user interfaces for decision-making processes: a case study on university employability
title_full Taking advantage of the software product line paradigm to generate customized user interfaces for decision-making processes: a case study on university employability
title_fullStr Taking advantage of the software product line paradigm to generate customized user interfaces for decision-making processes: a case study on university employability
title_full_unstemmed Taking advantage of the software product line paradigm to generate customized user interfaces for decision-making processes: a case study on university employability
title_sort Taking advantage of the software product line paradigm to generate customized user interfaces for decision-making processes: a case study on university employability
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv García-Peñalvo, Francisco J.
Therón Sánchez, Roberto
Vázquez Ingelmo, Andrea
author García-Peñalvo, Francisco J.
author_facet García-Peñalvo, Francisco J.
Therón Sánchez, Roberto
Vázquez Ingelmo, Andrea
author_role author
author2 Therón Sánchez, Roberto
Vázquez Ingelmo, Andrea
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv SPL
DSL
Domain engineering
Dashboards
Employability
Code generation
1203.17 Informática
topic SPL
DSL
Domain engineering
Dashboards
Employability
Code generation
1203.17 Informática
description [EN]University employment and, specifically, employability has gained relevance since research in these fields can lead to improvement in the quality of life of individual citizens. However, empirical research is still insufficient to make significant decisions, and relying on powerful tools to explore data and reach insights on these fields is paramount. Information dashboards play a key role in analyzing and visually exploring data about a specific topic or domain, but end users can present several necessities that differ from each other, regarding the displayed information itself, design features and even functionalities. By applying a domain engineering approach (within the software product line paradigm), it is possible to produce customized dashboards to fit into particular requirements, by the identification of commonalities and singularities of every product that could be part of the product line. Software product lines increase productivity, maintainability and traceability regarding the evolution of the requirements, among other benefits. To validate this approach, a case study of its application in the context of the Spanish Observatory for University Employability and Employment system has been developed, where users (Spanish universities and administrators) can control their own dashboards to reach insights about the employability of their graduates. These dashboards have been automatically generated through a domain specific language, which provides the syntax to specify the requirements of each user. The domain language fuels a template-based code generator, allowing the generation of the dashboards' source code. Applying domain engineering to the dashboards' domain improves the development and maintainability of these complex software products given the variety of requirements that users might have regarding their graphical interfaces.
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