Software Modeling Blog

Modeling / UML for the blind – Your input appreciated

jordi — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:45:36 +0000

Dear readers, I got this email earlier today: “I am registered blind and use a Screen Reader (software) to translate computer output into speech and electronic Braille. The screen reader cannot interpret images. Hence, I can neither read or draw diagrams. I am going for a job interview next week for a Business Analyst role

I envy the strong industrial involvement in the web research community

jordi — Wed, 16 May 2012 06:22:14 +0000

According to a tweet by Matthias Heinrich , the WWW’2012 conference (in short, the most important research conference on web topics) had a very strong presence of industrial players: “Out of 108 papers, Yahoo contributed to 22 and MS to 13 papers.” and more than 40 people from Google attended . Compared to these numbers,

Best example of multiple inheritance ever (thanks to Jean Bézivin)

jordi — Mon, 14 May 2012 05:45:22 +0000

I´m reproducing a picture that Jean posted in google plus to exemplify multiple inheritance. I don’t like the mechanism of multiple inheritance (at the conceptual level is sometimes useful but too easy to get it wrong and at the implementation level is just a nightmare since most technologies do not support it so you are

X3D-UML – Implementation of UML 3D with X3D

jordi — Fri, 11 May 2012 19:09:33 +0000

As a curiosity, I’m blogging today about X3D-UML, a thesis X3D-UML: User-Centred Design, Implementation and Evaluation of 3D UML Using X3D undertaken by Paul McIntosh involving the measurement of benefit in extending the Unified Modeling Language (UML) using the eXtensible 3D specification (X3D, the successor to VRML) to create 3D UML diagrams. The idea was

What do UML books talk about?

jordi — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:48:52 +0000

Vahid Garousi wrote an interesting classification and trend analysis of the UML books published between 1997 and 2009. The survey includes a word cloud of book titles (the words “UML”, “software”, “object-oriented”, and “systems” are very common in this context, so they were excluded from the input text ) that I’ve found interesting (and I

A coffee with Juan Carlos Molina – Integranova

jordi — Mon, 07 May 2012 05:34:02 +0000

Juan Carlos Molina leads the research and development activities at Modeling will be commonplace in three years time (with the caveat that, as he said, he has been giving the same answer since 1985!). I’m optimistic because I see that there’s now a little bit less of skepticism when we present our approach to companies

Enabling the collaborative definition of DSLs

jordi — Thu, 03 May 2012 08:01:48 +0000

Javier Luis Cánovas presents our approach for the collaborative development of Domain-Specific Languages (this work will be presented at the Models in Software Engineering Workshop at ICSE, any comment or suggestion, specially from practitioners with a more realistic and hands-on experience in the creation of DSLs, is more than welcomed; full paper available). Collaboration between

Free examples of OMG UML certification exams

jordi — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:46:34 +0000

Let me start by saying that I don’t believe in this kind of certifications since many of the typical questions in these tests are perfect examples of what NOT to ask (IMHO) if you are looking for a good software modeler. Anyway, for those companies/individuals that do care about certifications , this site offers free

Workshop on OCL and Textual Modelling (OCL 2012)

jordi — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:08:03 +0000

You can start working on your papers for the new edition of the Workshop on OCL and Textual Modelling , the best forum to discuss about the new development about OCL and textual modeling in general. You can read the call for papers here: http://st.inf.tu-dresden.de/OCL2012/cfp.php (and if necessary, you can start by reading first why