Worst Practices for Domain-Specific Modeling
One of the surprises for me at Code Generation 2009 was during the keynote, when I passed round a list for people to sign up to receive a pre-print of the Worst Practices for Domain-Specific Modeling article that was to appear in IEEE Software. When the list came back, I was astonished to see that basically the entire audience had signed up -- never underestimate the appeal of "free"!
I think the article is important, in that it is the first study of a large sample of DSM languages. The 20 worst practices identified were analysed from a sample spanning:
- 76 cases of DSM
- 15 years
- 4 continents
- several tools
- 100 language creators
- 3 to 300 modelers per case
IEEE Software has now published the next issue after the special issue on DSM, so it seems a fair time to point you to the final version of our article, available for free download:
Worst Practices for Domain-Specific Modeling
Steven Kelly and Risto Pohjonen
IEEE Software, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 22-29, July/Aug. 2009
doi:10.1109/MS.2009.109
Stop press: thanks to the efforts of the tireless Yoshio Asano of Fujisetsubi, the article is also available in Japanese from the same page. Domo arigato, Yoshio-san!