by Jordi Cabot | Mar 8, 2013 | teaching, UML and OCL
Dear lazyweb, I was wondering if any of you knows/uses any tool to automatically grade (UML) models created by students. I’m fully aware this far from easy (which probably explains why I don’t know of any such tool that is widely used, at least not among...
by Jordi Cabot | Feb 27, 2013 | DSLs, teaching
Javier Cánovas, a postdoctoral fellow in AtlanMod, recently gave on tutorial on DSLs (Domain-specific Languages). I think the set of slides he prepared are really good and could be interesting for many of the readers of the portal. So, if you want to know what a DSL...
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 31, 2013 | book, DSLs
Markus Völter talks about his recent (and highly anticipated 🙂 ) new book on domain-specific languages. Enter Markus. Domain-Specific Languages are modeling or programming languages that are tailored to a particular application domain. By incorporating knowledge about...
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...
by Jordi Cabot | Jan 17, 2013 | empirical studies, Model-driven Engineering
After reading the paper “Transition to Model-Driven Engineering – What Is Revolutionary, What Remains the Same?” by Jorge Aranda, Daniela Damian and Arber Borici I immediately contacted the authors and asked them to summarize the main lessons learnt...
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