Guest editorial to the theme issue on non-functional system properties in domain specific modeling languages

摘要

Complexity of software system has been recognized as the major cause of difficulties in making software system development an engineering discipline. As identified by F. Brooks (F. Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month, Addison Wesley, 1995), complexity of software system consists of the essential complexity, the complexity of problems that are part of requirements placed upon software systems, and accidental complexity caused by the use of current software engineering methods and technologies.