This is a pre-project (or specialization project) before a master's thesis at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim.
Thesis title: A Modeling Environment in the Cloud for Education
Author: Kristian Rekstad
Supervisor: Hallvard Trætteberg
Published: December 9, 2020
PDF: https://github.com/krissrex/ntnu-tdt4501-preproject-article/releases/tag/v1.0.0
Model-Driven Development is a an approach to software engineering. A common framework for Model-Driven Development (MDD) is the Eclipse Modeling Framework. However, students resist learning it because of its use of unpopular technologies. This thesis comes before a master’s thesis, and looks at how modeling can be moved to cloud based editors in order to renew the technology stack. At the same time, opportunities for saving effort are found, by reusing existing implementations, architectures and protocols from other tools. This thesis ends by finding the need for a tree based editor, and testing the feasibility of it. Finally, some requirements and an architecture for such an editor are found. These can be further studied and implemented in a master’s thesis.
The repo provides a simple Makefile which allows you to build the document locally. This requires that you have a LaTeX compiler, such as texlive, installed locally, which has to provide the commands pdflatex and biber.