Software Modeling for my Mom

Darryl Taft wrote a nice article for eWeek on software modeling at Microsoft. This article takes an awfully complicated subject and comes very close to explaining it in a way that passes my mom test.

What’s my mom test? You can probably infer already that my mom test is whether or not a technical issue can be distilled sufficiently for my mom to grok it. If that happens, the technology might be simple enough to actually work.

Software modeling and MDA have a ways to go, and it will get there. The value proposition of writing still less code is obvious and intuitive. Generating software from models is a technology that will continue to receive focus and funding, particularly at the big giants like MS and IBM. Thanks to Darryl, you can now explain it to your boss. Maybe even your mom.

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