A 25 year retrospective on model-driven requirements engineering

While many engineers are familiar with Model-Driven design and architecture, Model-Driven Requirements Engineering is still, for a variety of reasons, not widely accepted. Although introduced formally at the First International Workshop on Model-Driven Requirements Engineering (MDRE) in San Diego in 2001, the value proposition is still not clear, there are fewer industrial practitioners than one might expect, MDRE techniques have yet to be standardized and are still not clearly understood. This paper describes the authors experience since 1987 using MDRE techniques, including lessons learned and observed benefits and weaknesses.