Characteristics and challenges of low-code development: the practitioners' perspective

Y Luo, P Liang, C Wang, M Shahin, J Zhan - Proceedings of the 15th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Background: In recent years, Low-code development (LCD) is growing rapidly, and Gartner
and Forrester have predicted that the use of LCD is very promising. Giant companies, such …

Natural Language–Based Conceptual Modelling Frameworks: State of the Art and Future Opportunities

BA Hossain, MSH Mukta, MA Islam, A Zaman… - ACM Computing …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Identifying requirements for an information system is an important task and conceptual
modelling is the first step in this process. Conceptual modelling plays a critical role in the …

Low-code and no-code technologies adoption: a gray literature review

JX Silva, M Lopes, G Avelino, P Santos - Proceedings of the XIX Brazilian …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Context: In the last years, the software demand has been growing fast. With the Covid-19
pandemic, companies were forced to adapt to remote work, accelerating the digitalization …

An empirical study on low code programming using traditional vs large language model support

Y Liu, J Chen, T Bi, J Grundy, Y Wang, J Yu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Low-code programming (LCP) refers to programming using models at higher levels of
abstraction, resulting in less manual and more efficient programming, and reduced learning …

Could No-Code Be Code? Toward a No-Code Programming Language for Citizen Developers

A Avishahar-Zeira, DH Lorenz - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGPLAN …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
By 2030 for each filled position in Software Engineering, two positions would remain
unfilled. This already apparent loss of productivity has the software industry scrambling to fill …

Natural language to SQL in low-code platforms

S Aparicio, S Arcadinho, J Nadkarni, D Aparício… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
One of the developers' biggest challenges in low-code platforms is retrieving data from a
database using SQL queries. Here, we propose a pipeline allowing developers to write …

TimeLess: A Vision for the Next Generation of Software Development

Z Rasheed, MA Sami, J Rasku, KK Kemell… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Present-day software development faces three major challenges: complexity, time
consumption, and high costs. Developing large software systems often requires battalions of …

SmartCLIDE: shortening the toolchain of SOA-based cloud software development by automating service creation, composition, testing, and deployment

T Maikantis, T Chaikalis, A Ampatzoglou… - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Nowadays the majority of cloud applications are developed based on the Service-Oriented
Architecture (SOA) paradigm. Large-scale applications are structured as a collection of well …

Challenges and Barriers of Using Low Code Software for Machine Learning

MAA Alamin, G Uddin - arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.04661, 2022 - arxiv.org
As big data grows ubiquitous across many domains, more and more stakeholders seek to
develop Machine Learning (ML) applications on their data. The success of an ML …

Evaluation of low code and no code platforms as a strategy to increase productivity in software development

JX Silva, G Avelino - Proceedings of the XXIII Brazilian Symposium on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Since the beginning of the digital era, the software industry has faced a constant and
growing demand for sophisticated technological solutions. This accelerated demand has …