Extending Interaction Flow Modeling Language as a Profile for Form-making Systems

Abstract

Form-making systems are used to create, store, and spread forms such as questionnaires, surveys, and online exams. In general, the constant change of requirements makes the development process of such systems more complicated and longer. In order to reduce the complexity of generating form-making systems, in this paper, we propose a UML profile based on Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML) standard. On top of the rich set of concepts that exists in IFML for modeling the user interface and behavior of software systems, we extend this standard to support concepts dedicated to form-making systems. As tool support, we have implemented our UML profile in Papyrus. The tool helps designers build a valid model with less effort. To assess our profile and validate its efficiency, we experiment a case study for making an exam for a course. The results show that the proposed profile can support many scenarios of using form-making systems.