An environment based on pre-conceptual schemas for automatically generating source code under the mvc pattern

Abstract

CASE (Computer-Aided Software Engineering) tools are intended to support several phases of software development lifecycle. At the present, it is almost impossible to develop software applications without them. One of the most desired features of CASE tools is the automated source code generation. Nowadays, several CASE and metaCASE tools attempted to make such generation, but they share two main problems: they use, as a starting point, technical languages which are not suitable for stakeholder validation and they generate incomplete and non-patterned source code. For this reason, in this paper we propose a CASE tool for automatically generating PHP source code under the MVC (Model View Controller) programming pattern. We use pre-conceptual schemas as a starting point. We aim to generate complete source code and to ease the stakeholder validation.