Dear software practitioner,
During software development, we often experience problems regarding the
compilability, quality (e.g., maintainability), or conformance of our
software. With a model-driven approach such as MDSD (Model-Driven Software
Development), we might work on a higher abstraction level (i.e., software
models), but we (will) still experience similar problems during the
development of our software models.

Therefore, in the context of the VIDE project, we are conducting a survey
about how software modeling environments should annotate software models in
order to provide additional information about these problems. Our goal is to
get feedback from you on several annotation concepts and your opinion about
other characteristics of defect annotations.

Hence, we would like to invite you and members of your organization to
participate in the survey at http://www.online-poll.de/uc/vide-ma/.
Answering the survey should take about 20-30 minutes. The survey will close
on 8 October 2007 (extended).

We will draw five winners from all participants who finalized the survey;
they will get an Amazon gift certificate (either amazon.com or from a local
site) for $50.

Please pass information about this survey on to your colleagues and managers
as well as other contacts who might be interested in this topic.

Many thanks in advance,
Joerg Rech and Axel Spriestersbach

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Joerg Rech
Project Manager and Scientist
Speaker of the GI-Workgroup on Architecture and Design Patterns

Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE)
Tel.: +49 (0) 631/6800-2210 email: joerg.rech (at) iese.fraunhofer.de
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