Investigation of Modern Tools and Techniques Provided by Modeling Editors: A Survey

Abstract

The modern era of digital world has increased the multitude of defining various domain knowledge. Domain-specific-modeling-languages (DSMLs) propose an efficient manner to incorporate the knowledge of domain expert in software system development. The aim of this paper is to perform a survey in order to investigate the domains in which modeling editors are being used, the tools and techniques supported by specified modeling editors and lastly the features provided by specified modeling editors in the particular identified researches. Consequently, we have identified 5 categories, 28 tools/languages, 8 techniques and 4 features from selected 78 research studies published since 2011 to answer the research questions. This paper also focuses towards the detailed comparison between the identified techniques on the basis of features provided by modeling editors.