EduCase: Automatic System for the Development of Educational Software

Abstract: This work describes a proposal and a new automatic system for the development of educational software, called EduCase. This will help the teacher in creation the learning objects. EduCase is a CASE (Computer Aided Software Engineering) tool, because has the support of the X-Tec model. With the specifications of this model we can create and reuse the learning objects in order to reach a one specific public-target. The architecture is composed for two parts: a graphic editor and a code generation editor. The graphic editor makes possible the edition of the diagrams of model X-TEC, which are stored in a data repository. The code generation editor will be responsible for the automatic creation of educative software for the web environment, such as, the generated code is HTML language. The software is created based in the specifications of the domain of the problem, internal specifications of the X-TEC model and in a set of templates. The system encourages the style of incremental development, iterative and based on a prototype, so that in each/every phase models are built or enriched