Generación Automática de Código Bajo el Patrón MVC a Partir de Esquemas Preconceptuales


Generación Automática de Código Bajo el Patrón MVC a Partir de Esquemas Preconceptuales
Published in:	Engineering for a Smarter Planet: Innovation, ITC, and Computational Tools for Sustainable Development: Proceedings of the 9th Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology
Date of Conference:	August 3-5, 2011
Location of Conference:	Medellin, Colombia
Authors:	Carlos Mario Zapata Jaramillo Gloria Lucía Giraldo Gómez John Jairo Chaverra Mojica
Refereed Paper:	#84

Abstract
Several methods encourage code automatic generation, and CASE (Computer-Aided Software Engineering) tools are conventionally used for this task. However, these tools do not fully automate the process of code generation, and developers are still needed to complete the resulting source code. In addition, the generated source code does not reflect a layer-based architecture, like MVC (Model View Controller), which is highly desirable to separate the business rules from the application functionality. Lastly, many CASE tools use, as a starting point, diagrams that are not easy to interpret by stakeholders. In such a situation, the source code can not reflect the problem domain features. In order to partially solve these problems, in this paper we propose a set of heuristic rules for automatically generating PHP source code, under the MVC programming pattern from pre-conceptual schemas. This proposal is exemplified by means of a case study.