On using Sarkar Metrics to Evaluate the Modularity of Metamodels

Georg Hinkel, Misha Strittmatter

2017

Abstract

As model-driven engineering (MDE) gets applied for the development of larger systems, the quality assurance of model-driven artifacts gets more important. Here, metamodels are particularly important as many other artifacts depend on them. Existing approaches to measure the modularity of metamodels have not been validated for metamodels thoroughly. In this paper, we evaluate the usage of the metrics suggested by Sarkar et al. to automatically measure the modularity of metamodels with the goal of automated quality improvements. For this, we analyze the data from a previous controlled experiment on the perception of metamodel quality with 24 participants, including both students and academic professionals. From the results, we were able to statistically disprove even a slight correlation with perceived metamodel quality.

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Hinkel G. and Strittmatter M. (2017). On using Sarkar Metrics to Evaluate the Modularity of Metamodels . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD, ISBN 978-989-758-210-3, pages 253-260. DOI: 10.5220/0006105502530260

in Bibtex Style

@conference{modelsward17,
author={Georg Hinkel and Misha Strittmatter},
title={On using Sarkar Metrics to Evaluate the Modularity of Metamodels},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,},
year={2017},
pages={253-260},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006105502530260},
isbn={978-989-758-210-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,
TI - On using Sarkar Metrics to Evaluate the Modularity of Metamodels
SN - 978-989-758-210-3
AU - Hinkel G.
AU - Strittmatter M.
PY - 2017
SP - 253
EP - 260
DO - 10.5220/0006105502530260