Assessing the use of eclipse MDE technologies in open-source software projects

We assess the use of several Eclipse-based Model-Driven Engineering technologies (e.g. EMF, GMF, Xtext, Sirius, ATL, QVTO, Epsilon) in open-source software development projects hosted on GitHub. We discuss our data collection and analysis methodology, and present a number of findings related to the extent to which such technologies appear to be used in open-source projects on GitHub. Our study has revealed, among others, a significant number of GitHub repositories that make use of such technologies and a substantial community of increasingly active MDE-literate developers.