language parallax

On Thursday I spent my time at the OMG Symposium. Ed Merks was there and did a huge blog post about the talks, so he’s saved me a lot of wind! (Btw, I am almost completely occluded by Micheal Soden in the first of the two group pictures, but I promise I was there!)

It left me wondering last night if I have now met someone from every group that is implementing QVT. There was Michael Soden and Hajo Eichler of IKV, Victor Sanchez of Open Canarias, Jonathan Musset of Obeo, and Ed Willink of Thales. Perhaps I should qualify that — these are the groups working on open implementations of QVT.

Because I was at the OMG Symposium, I missed out on a talk by Gøran Olsen about traceability. Luckily he was there later in the day and I had a chance to talk to him briefly. He encouraged me to check out the workshop on traceability at ECMDA. I’m not sure if I’ll have the time to submit anything, but I’ll definitely consider it. I’ll certainly be looking through the proceedings of past years — I do think traceability is going to be an important part of the dissertation, and this looks like exactly the group to follow.