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An Evaluation of the DiaSuite Toolset by ProfessionalDevelopers

Milan Kabáč, Nic Volanschi, Charles Consel

To cite this version:Milan Kabáč, Nic Volanschi, Charles Consel. An Evaluation of the DiaSuite Toolset by ProfessionalDevelopers. ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications:Software for Humanity (SPLASH), Oct 2015, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. �hal-01319986�

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Evaluate the learning cost and usabil ity of the DiaSuite tool-based

approach dedicated to developing sensor/actuator applications.

Goal

SENSORS

DiaSuite Tool-Based Methodology

Technology Validation

Designers Testers Developers

Compiler

Implementation support

Applicationdesign Execution platform back-end

Programming framework

Simulation Application

Experimental Results

Context

Conclusion References

[1 ] B. Bertran, J. Bruneau, D. Cassou, N. Loriant,

E. Bal land, C. Consel. DiaSuite: a Tool Suite To

Develop Sense/Compute/Control Applications.

Science of Computer Programming, 201 2.

[2] Phoenix team. Objects World project. Online,

accessed 1 0/5/201 5, http://phoenix.inria.fr/

research-projects/objects-world.

[3] Sigfox Network Operator. Online, accessed

1 4/8/201 5, http://sigfox.com/en/#!/connected-

world/sigfox-network-operator.

Experimental Evaluation

Experimental Setup

• Revolves around the Sense/Compute/Control (SCC) architectural pattern

2 hr

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CHEMISTRY

NETWORKSMICRO

ELECTRONICSCOMPUTER

SCIENCE

INTERNET

of THINGS

PARTICIPANTSTOOLSSOFTWARE

ENGINEERING TASK

• The experiment involved four professional software developers with

background in development of IoT applications

• The Objects World project aims at building a sustainable ecosystem of

Internet-of-Things stakeholders based upon the Sigfox radio network [3].

RESEARCH

METHODOLOGY

PRESENTATION

HANDS-ON

TUTORIAL

DEVELOPMENT

ASSIGNMENTQUESTIONNAIRES INTERVIEWS

2 hr 4 hr 1 5 min 1 5 min

DEVELOPMENT TASKSYSTEM USABILITY SCALE

QUESTIONNAIRE

OK

GOOD

63,75

• Preliminary evidence that DiaSuitecan be transferred to the IoT domain

• Need for further experiments on astatistical ly larger population

• DiaSuite is a candidate forcontinuous improvement

• Simple contexts help with theimplementation, but may complicatetesting

INDUSTRY

METHODOLOGY TOOLS

USABILITY

EXPERIMENT

PROTOTYPE

APPLICATION

DEVELOPMENT

REQUIREMENTS TECHNOLOGY

VALIDATION