Round-trip Engineering for Tactical DDD: A Constraint-Based Vision for the Masses
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| author | Zhang, Weixing Herb, Mario Armbruster, Martin Jiang, Bowen Vielsack, Marcel Koziolek, Anne |
| author_facet | Zhang, Weixing Herb, Mario Armbruster, Martin Jiang, Bowen Vielsack, Marcel Koziolek, Anne |
| contents | Despite Domain-Driven Design's proven value in managing complex business logic, a fundamental semantic expressiveness gap persists between generic modeling languages and tactical DDD patterns, causing continuous divergence between design intent and implementation. We envision a constraint-based tactical modeling environment that transforms abstract architectural principles into explicit, tool-enforced engineering constraints. At its core is a DDD-native metamodel where tactical patterns are first-class modeling primitives, coupled with a real-time constraint verification engine that prevents architectural violations during modeling, and bidirectional synchronization mechanisms that maintain model-code consistency through round-trip engineering. This approach aims to democratize tactical DDD by embedding expert-level architectural knowledge directly into modeling constraints, enabling small teams and junior developers to build complex business systems without sacrificing long-term maintainability. By lowering the technical barriers to DDD adoption, we envision transforming tactical DDD from an elite practice requiring continuous expert oversight into an accessible engineering discipline with tool-supported verification. |
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| spellingShingle | Round-trip Engineering for Tactical DDD: A Constraint-Based Vision for the Masses Zhang, Weixing Herb, Mario Armbruster, Martin Jiang, Bowen Vielsack, Marcel Koziolek, Anne Software Engineering Despite Domain-Driven Design's proven value in managing complex business logic, a fundamental semantic expressiveness gap persists between generic modeling languages and tactical DDD patterns, causing continuous divergence between design intent and implementation. We envision a constraint-based tactical modeling environment that transforms abstract architectural principles into explicit, tool-enforced engineering constraints. At its core is a DDD-native metamodel where tactical patterns are first-class modeling primitives, coupled with a real-time constraint verification engine that prevents architectural violations during modeling, and bidirectional synchronization mechanisms that maintain model-code consistency through round-trip engineering. This approach aims to democratize tactical DDD by embedding expert-level architectural knowledge directly into modeling constraints, enabling small teams and junior developers to build complex business systems without sacrificing long-term maintainability. By lowering the technical barriers to DDD adoption, we envision transforming tactical DDD from an elite practice requiring continuous expert oversight into an accessible engineering discipline with tool-supported verification. |
| title | Round-trip Engineering for Tactical DDD: A Constraint-Based Vision for the Masses |
| topic | Software Engineering |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26987 |