Posts under ‘MDSD’

At http://www.agilemodeling.com/, Scott W. Ambler introduces us to the concept of Agile Modeling (AM) or Agile MDD.
In Scott’s words,

As the name implies, AMDD is the agile version of Model Driven Development (MDD). MDD is an approach to software development where extensive models are created before source code is written. A primary example of [...]

Enterprise Component has a collection of whitepapers relating to SOA and MDA that is bound to be relevant to many of you. Some of the papers are in DOC format, but that should hardly be a barrier. Enterprise Component is a member of http://www.modeldriven.org/.
Take a look at their whitepapers at,
http://www.enterprise-component.com/whitepapers.shtml

UML seems to be a polarizing factor in the software development debates. The Learning LISP blog chimes in with observations on the lack of added value UML brings to the design and development process.

UML is applying an abstraction at the wrong end of the problem. It is primarily used to sketch object models for inferior [...]

Peter Friese attended the Model Driven Software Development Today conference and posted a recap with overviews, items and a good deal of images. If you weren’t able to attend, this provides a good overview of what you missed out on.
http://www.peterfriese.de/mdsd-today-2008-recap/

We have by now a solid 50 plus years of collective experience in the development of commercial-purpose software. Though the field has yet to reach the maturity of traditional engineering disciplines, a few things have become very clear in this relatively short time.
First of all, software development is inherently time-consuming and error prone. If nothing [...]

Recently I have come across a number of MDD related blogs suggesting that UML is inadequate to support precise and abstract models, which are a prerequisite for a model-driven development approach.
For example, in his post Microsoft DSLs + UML = ???, arguing against the use of UML as a precise and abstract modelling language, Steven [...]

Last month Gartner published its latest edition of the technology hype cycle, outlining the status-quo on the latest trends in application development. I was happy to find that Gartner rightfully included an emerging trend which they call “Architected Model-driven SODA (Service Oriented Development of Applications)”. Of course Gartner succeeded in introducing a new acronym to [...]

Peter Friese (of itemis AG) responds to a post stating that a higher level of abstraction makes things more complicated.This addresses one of the many common misconceptions about MDD.
Let me give you an example: If you are writing  a software for your HR department, you really shouldn’t need to care about writing getters and setters [...]

Magnus Jungsbluth weighs in on the pros and cons of using MDD to develop software.
Model driven development is often still seen as gray theory by a lot of people but once you experienced it you never want to go back. A lot of the modern web frameworks like ruby on rails, django, cakephp, grails etc. [...]