Panel: The Relevance of Software Modeling to the Software Industry
Nicolas Rouquette, JPL;
Laurie Williams, NC State;
Peter Santhanam IBM;
John Richardson, Motorola;
Sudipto Ghosh, Colorado
17th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 06)
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, November 7-10, 2006
Abstract
A good percentage of papers that are submitted to most software
development related conferences are related to the subject of modeling.
To a lot of researchers model-driven development is the answer to most
software reliability/development problems. They argue that models help
the architects to reason about the problem and solution domains and can
potentially be used to formally prove that any solution meets its
specification (again another area of considerable research interest).
But in the midst of this massive support for modeling from the research
fraternity, industry appears to take a more ambivalent attitude, often
viewing modeling as a useful methodology but having limitations.
Additionally some in industry are moving away from these formal
methodologies, in applying techniques such as XP or agile methods.
The aim of this panel, by bringing together supporters of the
modeling philosophy and people who less enthusiastic, is to understand
why the software industry is not whole heartedly embracing software
modeling. Is it because industry is too conservatives or maybe that a
total modeling approach only works in theory but not in practice.