Towards a generic framework for empirical studies of Model-Driven Engineering

The goal of this paper is to introduce a work-in-progress approach that intends to formalize and facilitate empirical studies in Software Engineering in general and in Model-Driven Engineering in par- ticular. The main idea is to use a detailed model of software that makes explicit the dierent intermediate models used at the dierent levels of abstraction, their dierent quality characteristics together with their re- lationships. The expected benets of using such an explicit modeling is illustrated though ve examples for which empirical studies are designed (but not yet conducted) on basis of that approach