Enhanced Code Gene Rator for Model Driven Software Development
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2014-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Software development is a process by which a new software program is created or an existing
software program is enhanced. Software development passes through clear phases of
engineering called Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
Currently, software development relies much on modeling. Models provide abstractions of a
physical system that allow engineers to reason about the system by ignoring extraneous details
while focusing on relevant ones. All forms of engineering rely on models to understand
complex, real-world systems.
In the past two decades, different software designing tools and code generators have been
introduced for model driven software development. Some of these tools have code generation
capability for multiple platforms by providing their own model editor. While other code
generators use model of other UML editors as an input to generate code. Henoke [6] also
design and implement a code generator for model-driven software development. This code
generator has a UML modeling interface for three UML diagrams. The code generator is
designed to generate structural code from class diagram to a single platform which is Visual
Basic .NET. It also includes the reintegration of the modification of the generated code into the
model of the system being developed. Melese [7] enhanced the work of [6] by adding package
diagrams to the model construction module and modified the code generator algorithm to
support a package diagram.
This project work extends the works of [6, 7] by adding code generation to multiple platforms
from a Single Platform Independent Model (PIM) and code generation for MVC design pattern.
The model has five major components: Model Constructor, XMI Parser, Class Parser, Model
Transformer, and Code Generator.
A prototype of the model is built and evaluated with users. The usability test has shown that
the performance of the prototype is very good.
Keywords: Model Driven Architecture, Unified Modeling Language, Code generation, MVC
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Model Driven Architecture, Unified Modeling Language, Code Generation, MVC