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Model-Driven Development with Executable UML

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Logical complexity of software systems is one of the main factors causing problems and errors in their planning, design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance, and use. There is a common under- standing that building complex software systems requires careful planning, good architectural design, and well-controlled development processes. Many good books and papers, as well as all software engineering curricula, address this issue and yet, many software projects fail, miss their deadlines, or exceed their budgets. Building or maintaining a complex system (be it software or not) is always connected to a risk of mistakes and missed requirements, because humans (who are supposed to build the system) are intrinsically prone to errors when handling too many details and interrelated components at a time.
However, logical complexity is not completely inherent to software systems. On one hand, there is an inevitable component of complexity that is inherent to the very problem domain a software system deals with. The term essential complexity refers to that part of logical complexity inherent to the problem domain, and not introduced by a solution or the implementation technology used for it. Essential complexity is, thus, the ‘‘natural’’ part of complexity that cannot be removed and will exist in every solution to a problem, simply because a simple solution to the problem does not exist. However, essential complexity stands in contrast to accidental complexity, which arises purely from the implementation technology, tools, and methods applied in a solution. While essential complexity is unavoidable by any approach chosen to solve a problem, accidental complexity is caused by that very approach.

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: ., 2009

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1-818

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English

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978-0-470-48163-9

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