Generating a Tool for Teaching Rule-based Design

Stef Joosten, Gerard Michels

2013

Abstract

Software generation from a formal requirements specification has enabled a small research team to develop a tool set for educational design exercises and didactical research. This approach was needed to obtain a development environment, which is responsive to changing requirements due to maturing didactics and future research questions. We use Ampersand, a rule-based design methodology, to specify and generate the tool set called the Repository for Ampersand Projects (RAP). RAP is being used in a course on Ampersand for master students of computer science and business management. Analytic tools have been interconnected to RAP to obtain analytics about student activities in RAP. So, Ampersand is both the subject of teaching and research as well as an asset used to develop and maintain RAP. In this paper we present how RAP has been generated with Ampersand and reflect upon the value of this design choice.

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Joosten S. and Michels G. (2013). Generating a Tool for Teaching Rule-based Design . In Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD, ISBN 978-989-8565-56-3, pages 230-236. DOI: 10.5220/0004775902300236


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@conference{bmsd13,
author={Stef Joosten and Gerard Michels},
title={Generating a Tool for Teaching Rule-based Design},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD,},
year={2013},
pages={230-236},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004775902300236},
isbn={978-989-8565-56-3},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD,
TI - Generating a Tool for Teaching Rule-based Design
SN - 978-989-8565-56-3
AU - Joosten S.
AU - Michels G.
PY - 2013
SP - 230
EP - 236
DO - 10.5220/0004775902300236