The only thing I miss from the ER language for database modeling
The Entity-relationship (ER) was (well, still is in the database community) a popular modeling language to define the (static) conceptual schema of your system. UML class diagrams (with a bit of help...
View ArticleEMF Views – A View Mechanism for Integrating Heterogeneous Models
Modeling complex systems involves dealing with several heterogeneous and interrelated models defined using a variety of languages. Similarly to the concept of views in databases, we introduce EMF Views...
View ArticleSQL Database for your Git repository (slides)
Export your Git repositories to a relational database for a simpler data analysis using standard SQL tools. Easy integration with other tools
View ArticlePractitioner’s digest – Models papers in IEEE Software
A new column in the IEEE software promoting conference papers of special interest for software professionals. This time with Models papers.
View ArticleHuman factors in the adoption of model-driven engineering: an educator’s...
After a complete failure in convincing students about the benefits of code generation, we laid out a set of recommendations for instructors and tool vendors to increase the chance of success in the...
View ArticleLucidchart – an online modeling tool that just raised 36 million dollars
After their investment round, we catch up with Lucidchart's COO to see what we can expect from the Ludichart web-based modeling tool in the future
View ArticleDiscovery and Visualization of NoSQL Database Schemas
Most NoSQL database systems do not require the definition of schemas but this does not mean such schema does not (implicitly) exist. We have implemented a model-driven reverse engineering approach to...
View ArticleAutomatic Generation of Security Compliant Model Views
Read about our access-control mechanisms for models. We rely on a new domain-specific language tailored to the definition of RBAC rules on models and on its enforcement thanks to the automatic...
View ArticleHybrid Textual and Graphical ER Modeling in VS Code with the bigER Modeling Tool
bigER is a free and open-source ER modeling tool supporting hybrid, textual- and graphical editing, multiple notations, and SQL code generation. The tool is available as an extension for Visual Studio...
View ArticleThe Entity Relationship language (ER) is stronger than ever
There was a time when I thought the ER language would slowly disappear. I was utterly wrong. I'm seeing a resurgence of the language and its tooling ecosystem.
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