ABSE is Easy

Developing through ABSE may seem complex at a first glance, but it is actually rather simple.

Despite this simplicity, ABSE can model complex systems and be as flexible as a traditional software engineering approach, but with the implicit improvements in traceability, abstraction, and productivity.

In fact, you don't need to be a rocket scientist at all to get results from ABSE. It is accessible to the "mere developer mortal". An ABSE project is like a large mechanism that can built from smaller, pre-built or custom parts.

ABSE is therefore more pragmatic and simpler than other emerging DSL/model-driven tools or technologies.

• (1) You split up your knowledge or your system into identifiable, repeatable patterns (this is usualy called accidental complexity).

• (2) You translate those patterns into libraries of Atom Templates, your reusable assets. These patterns may belong to the solution you are using (system) or to the problem being solved (domain).

• (3) You build a model (App Model) of your system by reusing and combining these patterns into meaningful structures, reaching your design intent.

• (4) Finally you add specific, non-patternable code that is unique to the system being developed (this is usually called essential complexity).