Last week the second Dutch Model Driven Experience conference was held in Amsterdam. The goal of this conference is to stimulate the use of Model Driven Development (MDD) techniques and practices. The program was centered around practical experiences and “lessons learned”.
Two main approaches
In principle two main approaches were presented by different companies. The first [...]
Posts Tagged ‘MDD’
The Model Driven Experience 2009 - a review
Agile Modeling
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 [...]
MDSD Today 2008 Recap
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/
MDD for Application Development
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 [...]
UML for MDD - oxymoron or marriage made in heaven?
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 [...]
Thoughts on MDD
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 [...]
