[Eclipse 4diac] Improving the Usability of the 4diac IDE's State Machine Editor

[Eclipse 4diac] Improving the Usability of the 4diac IDE's State Machine Editor

Description 

Over the last years, the several graphical editors in 4diac IDE were reworked to make them more usable and to reduce the number of user interactions. These are, for example, the FB network editor or the FB interface editor. One editor that didn't get this treatment is the state machine editor. With this project, we would like to explore what issues we have in this editor and how we can improve the usability of this editor. Topics of a potential project are:

• identify usability issues
• group them regarding implementation effort
• fix usability issues
• document results

Links to Eclipse Project

Both to the Eclipse 4diac and Project Repository.

Expected outcomes 

• List of usability issues
• List of potential improvements
• Improved editor
• Documentation of results

Skills required/preferred 

Strong programming skills in Java and knowledge of Eclipse GEF Classic are required.

Project size 

175 hours or 350 hours (scope can be adjusted)

Possible mentors: 

Alois Zoitl

Rating 

Hard