Executing an MDA Process
Once one has an MDA process in place, one naturally wants to execute it. Broadly speaking, this comes down to two main activities: (1) formalizing knowledge of a subject matter and then rendering that knowledge as an implementation, and (2) mapping that formalized knowledge onto a target platform that can execute.
Knowledge formalization, in the context of MDA, involves, as you might expect, gathering requirements relevant to the domain of interest, abstracting that knowledge into some set of concepts, and then expressing those concepts formally in a model. What MDA brings to the table is the concept of testing the model for correctness—preferably by executing it.
As the models start coming together, the next step is ...
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