My thoughts are the animaton computers and Epic systems have been implementing this model for a long while. In the 1990's I remember a friend of mine using a stage program for his graphics and animations that allowed him to set a beginning graphic and and ending one, like a man in a jump position and the last one of a man in the air. The program knew how to create all the sequences in between and form the animation to see the jump.

With database BI design in reports, dashboards I always worked from the final design the manager needed to see and the programming only delivered what the approved design/ test plan needed to be. We would document thresholds and all the business rules and programmed only to those spec.

In any case where the design was not completed, the report was full of flaws that the programmer had little time to fix.

What I believe you are asking is for those who need this type of work done, to take way more responsibility and accountability in the work they will be taking credit for.

One last thing, the program called Epic, which is the premier healthcare management, database, and warehousing application on the market has been built on the premise of designing all of the flows of events and challenging them (testing them) before implementing them into the system. This type of model based programming has been going on for a long time and the system only creates the code it needs to satisfy the model.

I am in no way and expert and I am writing to discuss and understand. All I can do I use my 30 years as a database, data warehouse, ETL and reporting engineer to see where my side of the house proved the stupidity of "make it and show me" philosophy when it is always filled with time consuming fix to bugs.