Teaching Modelling, Modelling Teaching

On this edition of ‘Teaching Modelling, Modelling Teaching’, we’ll have Anthony, Anjorin, where he will talk about his experience on teaching MDE.

This aims to be an informal event for exchanging practices in teaching and developing shared good practices. 

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https://community.mde-network.org/events/teaching-modelling-modelling-teaching-32211518?instance_index=20230213T140000Z

MDENet Training Session Series - Bughunt! An interactive workshop on Model-Based Testing with the Axini Modeling Platform

We are delighted to announce we will be hosting another MDENet Training Session, taking place on the 22nd February, 14h-17h GMT.

The problem we are addressing: How do you know that your system conforms to its requirements and specifications in an automated fashion? The state of practice is to automate test-cases. But how does one create and maintain a high coverage (regression) test-set in an economically feasible fashion? Model-based testing is an interesting theory that brings specification and testing together. It makes it possible to test your systems with unprecedented precision in a maintainable way.

In this interactive workshop you get to know the Axini Modeling Platform. It is a platform to model and test systems. Tests are model-based, which means that the platform fully automates the testing process: test-case generation, execution and evaluation. Participants will take part in the bug hunt. We present 10 different implementations of the Smart Door IoT system, with several bugs in them. The person that finds the most bugs wins. In order to find the bugs, participants will model the specification of the Smart Door and then execute automatically generated tests against the implementations – all in the Axini Modeling Platform.

Training Session presented by Ulyana Tikhonova.

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https://community.mde-network.org/events/bughunt-an-interactive-workshop-on-model-based-testing-with-the-axini-modeling-platform?instance_index=20230222T140000Z

MDENet Research Demonstration - Bughunt! An interactive workshop on Model-Based Testing with the Axini Modeling Platform

We are delighted to announce we will be hosting the eighth session of out MDENet Training Session, taking place on the 27nd February, 16h-17h GMT.

Research demonstrations are aimed at industrial and academic audiences who have some initial experience with MDE and want to learn about specific technologies that may help them address specific challenges they are facing. A key goal is to support the seeding of new collaborations. 

The sessions will consist of 2–3 short demonstrations of 10–15 minutes each, covering a variety of technologies. It will be followed by Q&A and open discussion.

Dominik Bork 

Title: The bigER Tool: Hybrid Entity Relationship Modeling and Code Generation in VS Code
 

Abstract:
 Modeling tools play a crucial role in the effectiveness of MDE activities in practice. While tools have shown to support a wide variety of features, they often also come with limitations regarding usability or availability on certain platforms. Aiming to facilitate these limitations, modeling tools are continuing their move to web-based platforms. In this demonstration, we present the bigER tool for Entity-Relationship (ER) modeling – a concrete web-based modeling tool. bigER offers hybrid (i.e., textual and graphical) modeling support, thereby enabling the benefits of both editing approaches: rich-text editing (e.g., code completion, validation, references) for stability and efficiency, and graphical editing which is sometimes more intuitive. We further show, how bigER supports i) the export of ER models into a variety of SQL dialects, ii) the change of the diagram representation to different ER notations, and iii) the automated layout of the diagram. The tool is open-source and has already been freely downloaded by more than 2000 users as an extension for Visual Studio (VS) Code.

 

Benoit Combemale 

Abstract:

 

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