How face the top MDE adoption problems

Model Driven Engineering (MDE) refers to the creation and manipulation of models in the end-to-end application lifecycle. When adopting a model-based development approach many challenges arise, some of these are related to the immaturity of the methods and tools that support this paradigm. This paper presents an exploratory case study developed to analyze how the renowned MDE technology solutions contribute to face the adoption problems. The case study consisted of developing a Web application for an incident management process based on ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) using tools from three different MDE approximations: MDA, MDSD, and BPM. As a result of our study, we suggest different strategies to help practitioners face the top MDE adoption problems.