If you have been extensively using software modeling tools, you have probably experienced the awful situation where you want to move models from one tool to the other, but this ends up not being possible.Why? Because you are using different languages? Not at all: even just moving a "standard" model from a modeler to another … Continue reading Model interoperabilty in MDE: a lost battle?
Today at the BPMN 2011 workshop in Luzern, Bruce Silver gave an interesting talk on the status of BPMN 2.0, its adoption, and his proposal for improving its general usage.I really appreciated the talk because:it focused on the ambiguities of the BPMN notation, even in the so acclaimed 2.0 versionit highlighted how users tend to … Continue reading Bruce Silver’s keynote speech at BPMN 2011 workshop: interoperability and other issues in BPMN and UML
User Panel on Executable UMLA nice discussion developed within the Executable UML (xUML for short, from now on) user panel at the OMG technical meeting in Arlington, VA, today.The panel was chaired by Stephen Mellor and Ed Seidewitz. The panelists were:Laurent Rioux from Thales Diarmuid Corcoran from EricssonGary Shubert from Lockheed MartinHere are some interesting … Continue reading Panels on Executable UML at OMG tech meeting, Arlington, VA
These are my notes on Ed Seidewitz tutorial on Alf and fUML at Executable UML info day at today's OMG technical meeting.Alf aims at allowing to program in UML, without bothering to go back and implement at low level things that are specified already at the design level.The role of Alf is to provide the … Continue reading Ed Seidewitz tutorial on Alf and fUML at OMG tech meeting, Arlington, VA, March 22, 2011
"Models that don't execute are like cars without engines".Executable Models implement wrt 3GL the same paradigm that 3GL implemented through compilers or interpreters.The model is the system, it's not something you should maintain or keep aligned separately.Executable models help reduce errors (at least of 10%, according to estimates), but most importantly they help to find … Continue reading Stephen Mellor tutorial on Executable UML at the OMG meeting, Arlington, VA, March 22, 2011
