I recently asked question this question as a post on the Microsoft modeling and tools forum: Various Microsoft attempts at MDD have failed or been put on the back burner: WhiteHorse, Software Factories, Oslo. Does Microsoft have any strategy for Model Driven Development? Will any of the forementioned tools ever see the light of day? Stuart Kent responded to my question here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/stu... - Have a look at his post: ......
It seems odd that in 2011 there is no such thing as a requirements capture language. Martin Fowler describes this as the yawning crevice of doom in software - http://martinfowler.com/bli... , http://www.infoq.com/news/2... When I am building code it is ludicrous that I need to read a perpetually changing 50 page Word document or Excel spreadsheet, or worse a set of UML diagrams that are totally disconnected from reality. We need a standardized ......