ECOOP / Workshop 18 (cancelled)

Model-Driven and Agile Development

Abstract

Two recent industry trends are the Model-Driven Development (MDD) and Agile Development (AD), as exemplified by OMG's Model-Driven Architecture and Extreme Programming. While both claim to address the challenges of high change rates, short time-to-market, increased return-on-investment and high quality software, their proposed solutions turn out to be very dissimilar. MDD stresses the importance of a platform-independent and platform-specific model to separate abstract domain knowledge from concrete implementation environment. Agile Development, on the contrary, stresses the importance of early and frequent releases, emergent design and simplicity. MDD focuses on technical assets and a controlled capture, validation, and implementation of requirements. Agile development focuses on customer-valued functionality, just-in-time requirements and people.

Main Topics

model-based refactoring,
role of domain models and domain engineering in agile development,
test case generation from models,
overcoming feedback latency in domain-oriented requirements capture and validation,
issues of concurrent problem and solution domain evolution,
skill-set required of developers,
incremental and iterative development of models, metamodels, frameworks and generators.

Paper Submission


Type of Papers	Position paper, academic, industrial, practice reports are encouraged
Formatting Size	submissions should be in HTML and must include name, affiliation, postal and email address no longer than 2 pages
Deadlines	Submission April 25^th Notification May 17^th

Details


Organizers	Hans Wegener, Swiss Re Markus Völter, freelance consultant Frank Westphal, freelance consultant Joe Yoder, freelance consultant Krzysztof Czarnecki, University of Waterloo
Date Location	Monday, July 21^st
Workshop Home Page	http://www.voelter.de/conferences/ecoop2003.html
Number of participants	8 - 15
Rules for Attending	Applicants are required to submit a position statement that should describe at least one topic that the author plans to contribute to the discussion. Proposed topics should be relevant to both MDD and AD communities, ideally bridging the gap. All papers will be published on the workshop webpage prior to the workshop in order to allow participants to read each other's papers and provide the "What I like/important questions" cards.
Contact Person	Hans Wegener