This week at the LowCode workshop at MODELS 2024 in Linz, Till presented the results of his bachelor thesis, conducted within the distributed systems group. The paper contributes two user studies that explore the adoption and effectiveness of Low-Code Development Platforms (LCDPs) for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This research is timely, as it addresses key concerns about the practicality of using LCDPs for application development by non-programmers. The findings suggest that, while SMEs are concerned about the potential training costs for "citizen developers" (CDs), the performance gap between programmers and CDs using no-code tools may not be as significant as previously thought.

Interested? Please read the paper PDF.