On the Use of XMDD in Software Development Education

Process modeling can play a central role in problem-based software development education with regard to qualifying students for the design and implementation of software applications for their specific needs without putting the focus on the technical part of coding. eXtreme Model Driven Design (XMDD) is a paradigm that focuses on the What (solving problems), rather than on the How (the technical skills of writing code). In this way it renders application design and implementation less daunting, thus accessible and more appealing to people that are either less technically skilled, or simply not interested at all in learning usual programming. In this paper we report on our experiences with the use of the jABC process modeling framework for teaching service-based software development in an XMDD fashion to students of different fields and on different levels of education.