Collaborative Modeling of Web Applications for Various Stakeholders

The development of Web applications involves many stakeholders with different expertise. In many cases, the development of Web applications provides only technical models and their implementations, making it hard for non-technical stakeholders to get involved into the development process. As a result, a permanent collaboration and communication between all participating technical and non-technical stakeholders is needed during the whole development process. This paper proposes a model-driven approach of Domain-specific Modeling Languages (DSML) to separate the technical details from the non-technical ones. Non-technical stakeholders, also called domain experts, can assist the technical experts to map not well-known domain problems to the appropriate technological models. This leads to an intense collaboration between the different stakeholders and lowers the possibility of misunderstandings. These concepts improve the collaboration and, as a consequence, lowers the possibility of misunderstandings. Also, the modeldriven approach leads to a better maintainability and reusability of the resulting Web application.