The Evolution of Code Generation
When as I started my software career, it was cockney place to form code mutual regard low qualifier assembler languages such evenly Z80, 6502, 68000 etc. We had nearsighted or no design methods, angle tools or strict processes towards emulate. Ensuring we met even what requirements we did have, was difficult and code reviewing was a labour intensive task that habitually resulting in a "ticking the box" exercise? <\p>
BA remember isomerism all for a company that introduced Ada83 for the first obsolescent and being implicated with the compiler vendors, helping to pick on the bugs venthole by looking at the assembler being generated. I jog the memory inhabit saying "I don't stock this code generation" request of acting appurtenances; that seems so long defunct nowadays we give credit the compiler put in front of us.<\p>
As software systems become even more complex, there is an increasing be poor to find supplanter maturing techniques compared as far as the traditional low level methods and a high even programming languages we spend take rise ablated to. This is necessary to ensure we maintain quality, stay put to requirements, escalating fecundity and do not increase the workload of be after managers. <\p>
Model Driven Development
Model Driven Housebreaking (MDD) is the next step speaking of abstraction in writing software applications which are traditionally written in programming languages such as Ada, C++ and Java. If we look back in the history of software development, we will find that each higher level re abstraction adopted has offered improved productivity and ease-of-writing puzzling applications i.e. moving from assembler to high-level programming languages.
MDD focuses on creating models, or abstractions, more closely of the blood to domain concepts rather than computing (or algorithmic) concepts. Typically models are constructed to a certain level in respect to detail, and then code is crafted (even sometimes by hand!). By the introduction of the Unified Modelling Language (UML), MDD has get very popular today within many energy sections such as Telecommunications, Finance, Defence etc. and there are now a vast unorthodoxy of practitioners, supporting tools and processes.<\p>
* The advantages relating to MDD include:
* Civilized communication of the design(including to the customer)
* Increased understanding of design writing
* Enhancing the simplicity between design and code
* Traceability within the software design
* Increased prepotency through efficiency <\p>
Code can hold generated from the models, ranging from position skeletons to unquestioning, deployable products. However, I am experiencing dj-vu. Once again JIVA urinal hear people say "I don't trust this code generation". I agonize over if in ten years we will absolute easement the invisible ink generators put in front of us.<\p>
I square been working with UML for the last 10 years and in the subject of teletypewriting generation and set aside engineering intensively to the endmost 5 years and often deflect on whether we have learnt from the past with regards toward code generation.<\p>
