Industrialization of Research Tools: the ATL Case
Hugo Brunelière, Jordi Cabot, Frédéric Jouault, Massimo Tisi, Jean Bézivín · 2010
Research groups develop plenty of tools aimed at solving real industrial problems. Unfortunately, most of these tools remain as simple proof-of-concept tools that companies consider too risky to use due to their lack of proper user interface, documentation, completeness, support, etc that companies expect from commercial-quality level tools. Based on our tool development experience in the AtlanMod research team, specially regard-ing the evolution of our ATL model transformation tool, we argue in this paper that the best solution for research teams aiming to create high-quality and widely-used tools is to industrial-ize their research prototypes through a partnership with a technology provider.