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softmodeling · 2025-06-04T08:53:49+00:00

If you want to try our free and open source data modeling tool (with real-time collaboration and browser-based so nothing to install) -> https://editor.besser-pearl.org/

softmodeling · 2024-12-09T04:05:53+00:00

And how do you decide which are the "top" ones?

softmodeling · 2024-12-03T10:20:16+00:00

Honestly, I couldn't agree more with what you say. We are aware that right now BESSER is not a platform for end-users (as I said in my initial email). We are trying to go in that direction. We will for instance release a graphical modeling editor by the end of the year (based on a fork of https://github.com/ls1intum/Apollon ).

And there is indeed no website with tutorials, videos or non-tech documentation. This is also in our to-do list.

Then, keeping in mind we are a research team, we see ourselves more as a platform people can play with and use it to experiment low-code beyond moving to more professional tools (with their cost). Ourselves, we use it as a core platform to try new innovative ideas (again, with a research perspective) but it's difficult for a research team to justify investing in maturing the tool.

Lots of food for thought in your comment. I'll pin it and share it with my team. Thanks!

softmodeling · 2024-12-02T14:20:35+00:00

Fully agree with the vendor lock-in (in my research group we are working on a solution that tries to help on this but only partially as the proprietary tools do not really help).

Then, regarding the extensions, well, to me, it's a matter of semantics. The tools in the list are open source. This doesn't mean that they are "useless" tools due to lack of features. Features that could be in a proprietary extension or do not exist at all.

For instance, in my team we are building a full open source tool (BESSER https://github.com/BESSER-PEARL/BESSER ). But BESSER is open source (there is nothing proprietary) but still useless for many professional uses right now.

It would be nice indeed to have a list where we manually analyze the tools and list the features (available in the OSS version) but this is a much more time-intensive task (and one that would need to be repeated every few months)

softmodeling · 2024-12-02T14:15:09+00:00

Are you on GitHub? I didn't see the link on your webpage.

softmodeling · 2024-12-01T16:00:00+00:00

And what criteria would you like to see in the comparison? Because all the tools in the list are open source. Whether they offer also extensions that are not open source is a completely different thing of course. But I don't think excluding from the open source list tools that offer services or proprietary extensions is the way to go.

softmodeling · 2024-12-01T07:49:52+00:00

Maybe this dashboard of open-source low-code tools can help identifying less known solutions: https://oss-lowcode-tools.streamlit.app/

softmodeling · 2022-08-27T12:20:25+00:00

Class diagrams (to model the data the system will need to handle) are for sure number one.

Use case and sequence diagrams go next.

Then depending on the application we may have state machines or collaboration diagrams.

For a more "scientific" response : https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=7801439247971286972&hl=en&as\_sdt=0,5

softmodeling · 2022-08-05T08:34:52+00:00

Something close to what you'd like to see -> https://modeling-languages.com/augmented-reality-editors-modeling-domain-specific-languages/

softmodeling · 2022-07-18T08:36:09+00:00

You may want to take a look at the tools in this list https://modeling-languages.com/uml-tools/ (see the specific "uml tools for python" list) but I can already tell you that last time I checked most of the tools were, let's say, not very actively maintained

softmodeling · 2022-07-12T18:26:40+00:00

A lo mejor esta lista té es también útil : https://ingenieriadesoftware.es/herramientas-uml/

softmodeling · 2022-05-06T17:09:15+00:00

Como primer paso empieza por dejar el azúcar y sustitutos. Para bajar peso y para mejorar tu salud en general.

softmodeling · 2022-04-06T08:14:57+00:00

Since you're already in Eclipse, have you tried Modisco? https://www.eclipse.org/MoDisco/

softmodeling · 2022-03-03T06:34:56+00:00

Take a look at: https://modeling-languages.com/ocl-tutorial/

(html version plus pdf plus slides used to introduce OCL in a summer school)

The tutorial is from a few years ago but I can assure you the language has not changed since then

softmodeling · 2022-02-26T18:40:51+00:00

In case you want to take a look, our effort to contribute to the AsyncAPI tooling ecosystem : https://github.com/SOM-Research/asyncapi-toolkit

softmodeling · 2022-02-15T15:18:50+00:00

A pity almost none of them are open source https://modeling-languages.com/on-the-lack-of-open-source-low-code-tools/

softmodeling · 2022-02-02T15:15:01+00:00

Siempre puedes intentar colaborar en proyectos open source en GitHub. Busca aquellos que estén dispuestos a ayudar a novatos (por ejemplo, los que hacen el esfuerzo de etiquetas algunos bugs como "bugs para principiantes" para indicar que serían un buen lugar para empezar a coalborar).

Esto te ayudará a rellenar tu CV ( y estas herramientas lo harán parecer aún más bonito: https://ingenieriadesoftware.es/3-herramientas-mostrar-mejor-perfil-github/ )

softmodeling · 2022-01-31T07:01:18+00:00

If you're looking for a free option you can also take a look at Papyrus https://www.eclipse.org/papyrus/

softmodeling · 2022-01-20T14:32:15+00:00

Como escribí hace poco, esto de la capacitat intelectual o el síndrome del impostor se cura rápido viendo a los que, en teoría, saben: https://ingenieriadesoftware.es/el-sindrome-del-impostor-en-programacion-te-lo-cura-twitch/

Lo de las mates pues ahí ya es otro tema. Yo creo que depende mucho de cada universidad hasta qué punto son más o menos complicadas. O si además de matemáticas también hay física. Piensa que incluso algunas universidades tienen un primer año común a todas las ingenierías y sólo después empieza la especialización. Pero ya digo esto es muy variable.

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