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May 1, Tuesday
12:00 – 14:00

This lecture summarizes the work done by the industrial partners in the MODELWARE project to measure the return on investment due to the adoption of a model driven development (MDD) strategy. The industrial partners in the project were France Telecom, Thales Air Traffic Management, Western Geco, WM-Data, and Enabler. Each of the industrial partners was teamed with one or two academic partners to assist in the creation and customization of MDD processes and tools appropriate to the industrial partner, taking into account their application domain, size of the company, software process maturity, and level of sophistication.

Each team carried out a series of experiments in order to measure the improvement in productivity. A baseline was established at the beginning of the project, and subsequently measurements were made using the MDD tools and processes. Different experiments focussed on different phases in the software lifecycle.

It was found that MDD provides little or no improvement in productivity in the initial phases of development, but significant gains of 20-60% were observed in the execution of maintenance tasks.