Usability evaluation of modeling notations for software engineering in machine and plant automation

Author

Braun, Steven ; Obermeier, Martin ; Vogel-Heuser, Birgit

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Technol. in Mech. Eng., Tech. Univ. Munchen, Garching, Germany

fYear

2010

fDate

13-16 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

During the last eight years we investigated the benefit of modeling notations, e.g. UML and domain specific UML profiles as well as specialized modeling languages (Idiomatic Control Language - ICL) in software engineering (IEC 61131-3) in machine and plant automation with three different experiments and approximately more than 120 participants. The results of the conducted experiments revealed the benefits and the shortcomings of UML in the field of supporting control programming. Furthermore we can show the impact of different modeling notations on software quality (IEC 61131-3) and time consumption for the software development process as well as some results on how to evaluate model driven engineering under usability aspects.

Keywords

IEC standards; Unified Modeling Language; industrial plants; production engineering computing; software quality; IEC 61131-3; Idiomatic Control Language; domain specific UML profiles; machine; model driven engineering; modeling notation; plant automation; software development process; software engineering; software quality; specialized modeling languages; usability evaluation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), 2010 IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Bilbao

ISSN

1946-0740

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6848-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.2010.5641365

Filename

5641365