Last year I enjoyed visiting the Code Generation conference. I presented my lessons learned in building a Model Driven Software Factory, met a lot of interesting people, and had a lot of fun. It’s really interesting to share experiences with people (experts!) in the field of Model Driven Software Development. Have a look at my write-up of a Birds of a Feather (BoF) session about Code Generation vs. Model Interpretation.

Last month I was invited to give a keynote talk at the Dutch Testnet 2010 event. I explained the basic concepts of Model-Driven Development (MDD) to an audience of about 500 professional software testers and gave some food-for-thought (I hope) about the impact of MDD on the test profession. I really enjoyed the event. Please find a brief overview of my talk and the slides below.

Do you believe in Model Driven Software Development? Do you believe in modeling languages on a higher abstraction level and automated transformations to an executable business application? I see Model Driven Software Development as an important part of the future of software development. However, I also see a lot of people struggle with actually using Model-Driven techniques and applying them in their daily business. It isn’t trivial to build a.