inDev: A software to generate an MVC architecture based on the ER model

Abstract

Model-view-controller (MVC) design pattern is employed as software architecture. This pattern has the objective of separating the code into three elements, maintaining layers with defined functions. MVC pattern is used to structure and organize code in software development; therefore, it is an important topic in the teaching of software engineering. However, understanding and implementing this design pattern is not easy for students. Therefore, this investigation proposes a Computer Aided Software Engineering tool called inDev, which is capable of generating an application based on an Entity Relationship (ER) diagram, generating the model, the controller, and the view.The student can interact with the system by visualizing the changes produced by the inputs in the ER diagram in the output as the MVC architecture. To test the scope of the project as a teaching strategy, an experiment was designed with a control group and an experimental group. The experimental group that used the application, inDev, showed better results in learning than the control group, which did not use it. The inDev tool proved to be a useful educational tool for dealing with a topic like the MVC design pattern.

Influence of Digital Information Management on the Audit Path of Financial Special Poverty Alleviation Funds

“…e experimental group that used the inDev app learned better than the control group that did not use the app. e inDev tool has proven to be a useful educational tool for dealing with topics such as the MVC design pattern [9]. e above references are more detailed on digital information management, special poverty alleviation, and MVC model, which brings about some inspiration to the following elaboration.…”

Resource distribution of online and offline interactive teaching mode based on feature fusion network

“…Web applications can be built in a relatively short time using the SSH integration framework, and web applications are characterized by a clear structure, good reusability, and easy post-maintenance. One of the MVC separations is taken care of by Struts, which is the overall infrastructure of the system [18]. Using the persistence layer's reliance on the Hibernate framework, the model part of the Struts framework controls the business jumps, and Spring is responsible for managing struts and hibernate.…”