A Framework for Web Applications using an Agile and Collaborative Model Driven Development (AC-MDD)

Abstract

This paper presents, as its main contribution, a Framework for Web Applications named Agile and Collaborative Model Driven Development (AC-MDD), seeking to reduce wastes on the modeling and documentation activities of web applications. The AC-MDD framework was elaborated based on related works that present Agile Model Driven Development processes (AMDD), but it deals with issues not yet considered by these researches. To adopt the AC-MDD framework, some visual elements from a novel Unified Modeling Language (UML) profile named Web-AML was designed, allowing to represent agile models of web applications. Besides that, in order to apply the proposed framework using these new models, a method was defined providing steps to transform agile models into web application source-codes. A case study was performed successfully in a real project that gives support to the population of a city located in the State of São Paulo (Brazil) to deal with the real flood problem they have been facing in recent years. This project was developed at the Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology of São Paulo to verify and validate the AC-MDD framework. Finally, a comparative analysis between the AC-MDD Framework and other AMDD processes was presented and highlighted the main aspects of the proposed framework.