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SFM-12 MDE Summer School
Formal methods are emerging in computer science as a prominent approach to the rigorous design of computer, communication and software systems. The aim of the SFM (International School on Formal Methods) series is to offer a good spectrum of current research in foundations as well as applications of formal methods, which can be of interest
Does software modeling pay? – Empirical studies in UML (presentation)
The announcement OF Michel Chaudron’s talk at the Jeudi des Modèles conference series: Modeling effectively – insights from empirical studies raised some interesting discussions .
My online conference talk on “MDE that works (really!)” (in spanish)
Since I know that SOME Spanish-speaking readers prefer TO follow the English version OF the portal instead OF the Spanish one I’d like to announce here my participation in the SGVirtualConference on Wednesday, April 6th.
Videos of modeling lectures on iTunesU
We are now making available on iTunesU the lectures given as part of the Jeudi des Modèles conference series.
Agile and Modeling / MDE : friends or foes?
Today I’ve given a talk at the Agile Tour Nantes where I explore the relationships BETWEEN software modeling and agile practices. For many agilists, the perception is that modeling is a useless activity that should not be part of the core agile practices. But, is this really the case? Can both cross-fertilize each other?
Video of Ivar Jacobson’s talk ON “What they don’t teach you about software at school” IS now online
The video of the talk that Ivar Jacobson gave at École des Mines de Nantes is now available online . My summary of the talk can be found here .
His talk was not explicitly about the SEMAT initiative though many of the ideas of the talk are an important part of his contribution to SEMAT.
Remembering Tony Hoare’s sentence ON software design
Today I feel LIKE remembering Tony Hoare’s great sentence on software design, part of his 1980 Turing Award Lecture (published in Communications of the ACM 24 (2), (February 1981): pp. 75-83)
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
A coffee with Rafael Chaves (TextUML tool)
Read other interviews here TextUML is a textual modeling tool for UML that lets you create models at the same speed you write code . That sounds promising, doesn’t it?. Intrigued to know more about this tool, I had a coffee with Rafael Chaves (the creator of this tool) to better understand TextUML (why creating
Starting the “A coffee with … ” series
I learnt a lot when Greg and I did our study of web-based project management portals , specially when interviewing their creators.
Even if each interview took a lot of time (preparing the interview, transcribing and processing it,…), it was arguably the best source of information and by far the most interesting one since it gave us the opportunity to understand the rationale behind the tool design decisions and evolution.
