Quality of Modelling Languages

Although the primary goal of modelling is to provide good models (as a trade-off between different quality types described in the previous chapter), an important means to achieve model quality is to use an appropriate modelling language for the modelling task at hand. As illustrated in the previous chapter, language quality goals are looked upon as means in the overall quality framework. A good language is useful, but not sufficient, to get a good model. It is obviously still possible to create a poor model in any language. In this chapter, we will first present the general guidelines for the quality of modelling languages according to six categories:

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