Application of domain engineering to generate customized information dashboards

Abstract

Information dashboards play a key role in analyzing and visualizing data about a specific topic or domain. In essence, these dashboards display in-formation and enable users to reach insights and make informed decisions. However, end users can have several necessities that are different from each other, including the displayed information itself or other design features. For these reasons, a domain engineering approach is proposed in order to produce customized dashboards adapted to singular requirements of every involved user (or group of users) by the parameterization of features, presentation components and data sources, obtaining a software product line of information dashboards. The creation of a product line would in-crease productivity, maintainability and traceability regarding the evolu-tion of the dashboards’ requirements. To validate this approach, a case study of its application in the context of the Spanish Observatory of Em-ployability and University Employment ecosystem is described, where us-ers (Spanish universities and administrators) will control their own dash-boards to reach insights about the employability of their graduates.