MDE between Promises and Challenges

Tahar Gherbi (1, 2) , Djamel Meslati (3) , Isabelle Borne (1)

1 VALORIA - Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications de Vannes et Lorient
2 Computer science department
3 Computer Science Department

Model Driven Engineering (MDE) is a software development approach family based on the use of models in the software construction. It allows the exploitation of models to simulate, estimate, understand, communicate and produce code. This paper tries to introduce MDE and presents its actual state. It starts by explaining the industrial world need for such approaches, sheds light on MDE's principles, examines these principles in practice through a relevant alternative named Model Driven Architecture (MDA) of the Object Management Group (OMG), discusses Microsoft's Software factories and IBM's Manifesto MDA versus OMG's MDA and presents some challenges facing the success of MDE.

Mots clés: MDA; Software factories

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]

Tahar Gherbi, Djamel Meslati, Isabelle Borne. MDE between Promises and Challenges. 11th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation (UKSim 2009), Mar 2009, Cambridge, United Kingdom. pp.152-155, ⟨10.1109/UKSIM.2009.13⟩. ⟨hal-00501636⟩