The Making Of User-Interface Designer A Proprietary DSM Tool

This paper relates the construction of UI Designer, a proprietary tool that enables up to 5-fold productivity enhancements by synthesizing finished software products out of domain-specific models. The authors start by presenting their development context and rationales for using Domain-Specific Modeling (DSM). Next they describe their approach to define domain-specific notations with an emphasis on pseudo-realistic modeling and dynamic modeling. They conclude with a discussion on the topics of tool applicability and tool maintainability.