by Jordi Cabot | Sep 3, 2013 | empirical studies, Model-driven Engineering, opinion
Reading my Computer magazine, I ended up in an article describing a case study in the General Electric’s Motor division on the use of a model-based approach for “Quickly developing an Information System”. Among others, the paper clearly says that: A...
by Jordi Cabot | Aug 21, 2013 | empirical studies, opinion, UML and OCL
Some weeks ago we echoed a study (based on 50 interviews to software professionals) that showed UML adoption had not really taken off. Today, we mention a post by Richard Soley (yes, the CEO of the OMG, the organization behind UML) that claims exactly the opposite and...
by Jordi Cabot | Jun 14, 2013 | opinion, UML and OCL
In short, I’m afraid the answer is NO (and my belief is the same applies to MDE in general). Recently I had a couple of strong “déjà vu”. The first one while reading the “UML in Practice” ICSE’13 paper and the second one while...
by Jordi Cabot | Apr 4, 2013 | (meta)modeling, opinion
Spring is here and with it many seasonal allergies. Today, however, I´d like to mention a yearlong one, the modelling allergy a clear case of hypersensitivity disorder that provokes a strong allergic reaction when the person is faced with software models (and related...
by Jordi Cabot | Feb 5, 2013 | opinion, programming, teaching
One of the first concepts I show when teaching Model-driven engineering is the MDE equation (Models + Transformations = Software ) which obviously revisits the well-known Niklaus Wirth’s equation: Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs. I thought that by...
by Jordi Cabot | Jan 28, 2013 | Model-driven Engineering, opinion
Richard Paige and Louis Rose just published in the JOT journal the article/post Lies, Damned Lies and UML2Java where they summarize the 10 most dangerous misconceptions about model-driven engineering. For those with no time, this is the list headlines (you´ll need to...
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