Results · KPIs

BESSER by the numbers.

A research project measured by its reach — the citations, classrooms, contributors, and users behind the platform. Tap any number to see what it counts and where it comes from.

183
GitHub stars
20
Contributors

Open-source development

A healthy, active codebase built in the open on the BESSER GitHub repository.

265
Merged PRs
85
Releases
2,451
Commits
~401k
Lines of code
164
Issues resolved

Platform adoption

Real people using the WebModelingEditor (WME) and shipping projects on top of BESSER.

Community & outreach

Where the BESSER community gathers and grows — follow the BESSER LinkedIn page and watch tutorials on the BESSER YouTube channel.

26,784
LinkedIn impressions
491
LinkedIn followers
9
YouTube videos
418
YouTube views
252
Citations

Peer-reviewed and preprint publications from the BESSER team. Counts all mentions across the team's bibliography, sourced from Semantic Scholar.

Most cited
  • From Image to UML: First results of image-based UML diagram generation using LLMs
    2024 · STAF 2024 Workshops: AgileMDE, LLM4MDE, MeSS, pp. 55–6533 citations
  • Building BESSER: An Open-Source Low-Code Platform
    2024 · International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support31 citations
  • A DSL for Testing LLMs for Fairness and Bias
    2024 · ACM/IEEE 27th Int. Conf. on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, pp. 203–21323 citations
Source · Semantic Scholar
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27
Universities using BESSER

Higher-education institutions where BESSER is used in coursework, labs, or student projects — reported to us by instructors and collaborators around the world.

University of Luxembourg
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Bournemouth University
Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Barcelona, Spain
University of Murcia
Murcia, Spain
Gran Sasso Science Institute
L'Aquila, Italy
Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL)
Bergen, Norway
Sapienza University of Rome
Rome, Italy
University of Osnabrück
Osnabrück, Germany
Goldsmiths, University of London
London, United Kingdom
City St George's, University of London
London, United Kingdom
Technische Universität Ilmenau
Ilmenau, Germany
University of Porto
Porto, Portugal
DHBW Heidenheim
Heidenheim, Germany
University of Bayreuth
Bayreuth, Germany
Ege University
İzmir, Turkey
University of Stuttgart
Stuttgart, Germany
Centre d'Excellence en Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication
Brussels, Belgium

Teaching a course with BESSER, or running a lab that uses it? Tell us

Source · Reported
2,112
WME visitors

Unique visitors to the WebModelingEditor since Jan 2026.

Unique visitors / month last 7 months
Peak 1,152 · Mar 2026Latest 32 · Jul 2026

Aggregate, anonymised reach — auto-refreshed weekly from WebModelingEditor telemetry (July 2026).

Source · WME telemetry
Open the editor
80
Countries reached

Countries from which the WebModelingEditor has been opened. Auto-refreshed weekly from PostHog telemetry.

ArgentinaAustriaAustraliaArubaBosnia and HerzegovinaBangladeshBelgiumBulgariaBoliviaBrazilCanadaSwitzerlandChileChinaColombiaCape VerdeCzechiaGermanyDenmarkEcuadorEstoniaSpainEthiopiaFinlandFranceUnited KingdomGhanaGreeceHong KongHondurasHungaryIndonesiaIrelandIsraelIndiaIranItalyJamaicaJapanSouth KoreaLebanonSri LankaLuxembourgMoroccoMyanmarMexicoMalaysiaMozambiqueNetherlandsNorwayNepalNew ZealandPanamaPhilippinesPakistanPolandPortugalQatarRomaniaSerbiaRussiaRwandaSaudi ArabiaSeychellesSwedenSingaporeSloveniaSlovakiaSyriaThailandTunisiaTürkiyeTaiwanUkraineUnited StatesUruguayUzbekistanVenezuelaVietnamSouth AfricaLuxembourg — home base
All 80 countries alphabetical
  • ARArgentina
  • AWAruba
  • AUAustralia
  • ATAustria
  • BDBangladesh
  • BEBelgium
  • BOBolivia
  • BABosnia and Herzegovina
  • BRBrazil
  • BGBulgaria
  • CACanada
  • CVCape Verde
  • CLChile
  • CNChina
  • COColombia
  • CZCzechia
  • DKDenmark
  • ECEcuador
  • EEEstonia
  • ETEthiopia
  • FIFinland
  • FRFrance
  • DEGermany
  • GHGhana
  • GRGreece
  • HNHonduras
  • HKHong Kong
  • HUHungary
  • INIndia
  • IDIndonesia
  • IRIran
  • IEIreland
  • ILIsrael
  • ITItaly
  • JMJamaica
  • JPJapan
  • LBLebanon
  • LULuxembourg
  • MYMalaysia
  • MXMexico
  • MAMorocco
  • MZMozambique
  • MMMyanmar
  • NPNepal
  • NLNetherlands
  • NZNew Zealand
  • NONorway
  • PKPakistan
  • PAPanama
  • PHPhilippines
  • PLPoland
  • PTPortugal
  • QAQatar
  • RORomania
  • RURussia
  • RWRwanda
  • SASaudi Arabia
  • RSSerbia
  • SCSeychelles
  • SGSingapore
  • SKSlovakia
  • SISlovenia
  • ZASouth Africa
  • KRSouth Korea
  • ESSpain
  • LKSri Lanka
  • SESweden
  • CHSwitzerland
  • SYSyria
  • TWTaiwan
  • THThailand
  • TNTunisia
  • TRTürkiye
  • UAUkraine
  • GBUnited Kingdom
  • USUnited States
  • UYUruguay
  • UZUzbekistan
  • VEVenezuela
  • VNVietnam

Aggregate, anonymised reach — auto-refreshed weekly from WebModelingEditor telemetry.

Source · WME telemetry
Web App
Most-used generator
1,849 generations

The BESSER code generator invoked most often by WME users. Full-stack web-app generation from a UML class diagram is, by a wide margin, the most popular output.

Source · WME telemetry
56
Avg. model size
elements, incl. attributes

Average number of modelling elements (classes, attributes, associations, enums…) in a WME model — a rough sense of how large the models people build actually are.

Source · WME telemetry
9
Projects built with BESSER

Applications built with BESSER. Real apps generated from a model, from CRMs and dashboards to AI agents and research tools.

Source · Computed
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