Cost comparison for metadata driven graphical user interface

Debolina Ghosh, Jay Prakash Singh, Jagannath Singh, Ashish Anand and Sireesha Varada

International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management, 2024, vol. 43, issue 1, 122-139

Abstract: Nowadays, metadata-driven architecture for application development is a popular design paradigm, particularly for enterprise applications. Metadata-driven software development is expected to be faster and less expensive than traditional code-centric program development. For developing graphical user interface (GUI) also, the metadata-driven software development process works faster. In this paper, we have evaluated the cost and effort for GUI development by using traditional code-centric as well as metadata-driven architecture. SAP UI5, a GUI development framework is used to determine the cost and effort based on the COCOMO model. To find the efficiency of the proposed approach, we have gathered 12 GUI-based projects from various sources with similar features and complexities and compared the development cost of the projects by both the techniques. The finding shows that a meta-data driven development process takes less development cost as compared to traditional code-centric processes. The result analysis can be used in decision-making processes such as architecture selection, cost, and effort estimation, and hence it plays an important role in the overall success of any software development project.

Keywords: graphical user interfaces; GUI; metadata; COCOMO; cost estimation; effort estimation; SAP UI5. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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