Clergyman's

Today some evidence arises that UML will more and more be used not as a but as a high level programming language. This has some advantages, as if the concepts of UML are executable, they can immediately be animated and tested, or the generated code even be used as implementation. Thus UML probably will have an implementation-oriented semantics describing this animation.
- Bernhard Rumpe

Advances in hardware and network technologies have paved the way for the development of increasingly pervasive software-based that collaborate to provide essential services to society. Software in these systems is often required to operate in distributed and embedded computing environments consisting of diverse devices , communicate using a variety of interaction paradigms , dynamically adapt to changes in operating environments, and behave in a dependable manner. Despite significant advances in programming languages and supporting integrated development environments , developing these complex software systems using current code-centric technologies requires herculean effort.
- Bernhard Rumpe

In all engineering disciplines nowadays, software engineering excluded, there exists an established engineering process to develop a system, which is accompanied by a number of suited modeling description techniques. Software engineering, being a rather new field, has not as yet established any clear methodical guidance or a fully standardized modeling notation.
- Bernhard Rumpe

Extreme Programming is the most prominent new, light-weight methods, defined to contrast the current heavy-weight and partially overloaded object-oriented methods. It focuses on the core issues of software technology. One of its principles is not to rely on diagrams to document a system.
- Bernhard Rumpe