Could UML be used to program a computer system on its own, without a supporting implementation language, e.g. diagrams straight to machine code (maybe via C or C++ etc), without human coding interv...

Software Engineering as it is taught today is entirely focused on object-oriented programming and the 'natural' object-oriented view of the world. There is a detailed methodology that describ...

Using the Mendix Business Modeler to build web-applications is fundamentally different than developing web-applications using technologies like Java/Spring/JSF. But, I'm going to try to compare the...

I have been interested in formal methods for some time. I have used formal methods to reason about some very specific sub-areas of a few projects I have been working on. I was never able to convinc...

I am currently facing a situation where I as an advocate of test driven development have to compete with an advocate of model driven software development (MDSD) / model driven architecture (M...

Just reading the (german) Wiki-Article about Model-Driven SW-Development (MDSD). Summing up the Wiki-Definition: MDSD is about the DRY-Principle (Dont repeat youself) MDSD is about the Design of...

I was involved in an interesting debate about the visibility of domain models & was wondering if people here have any good guidance. Per my understanding of MDA, we need not expose the domain...

My team is using the IBM's Rhapsody tool to do real-time embedded development. Unfortunately, we are unhappy with our current review process. More specifically, we've had difficulty because: the...

I'm really interested to hear what you think about Model-driven Software Development for Java and/or .NET. Does it save time? Does it improve quality?