Model-driven development and the future of software engineering education

This paper argues that the research area of model-driven development is likely to lead before long to tools being produced that will automate most of the construction activity within software development processes. It therefore discusses the impact that such developments would have on the software engineering curriculum, in terms of both the body of knowledge and the structures of courses, drawing on analogies with the impact during the 1960s of the development of problem-oriented programming languages and compilers for them.