Automatic Source Code Generation for Web-based Process-oriented Information Systems

Jean Pierre Alfonso Hoyos, Felipe Restrepo-Calle

2017

Abstract

Software development life cycle (SDLC) activities include: requirements analysis, design, development, testing and maintenance. The first two steps have wide impact in the project success, and errors in these stages can have large impact in the project duration and budget. To mitigate these problems, strategies like fast prototyping using natural language to specify software requirements have been proposed. These approaches can make the SDLC faster. In this context, this paper presents an approach to automatically generate a web application prototype running business processes using a restricted natural language specification. A comprehensive case study is presented to validate the proposal and demonstrate its applicability.

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Alfonso Hoyos J. and Restrepo-Calle F. (2017). Automatic Source Code Generation for Web-based Process-oriented Information Systems . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-758-250-9, pages 103-113. DOI: 10.5220/0006333901030113


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@conference{enase17,
author={Jean Pierre Alfonso Hoyos and Felipe Restrepo-Calle},
title={Automatic Source Code Generation for Web-based Process-oriented Information Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2017},
pages={103-113},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006333901030113},
isbn={978-989-758-250-9},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - Automatic Source Code Generation for Web-based Process-oriented Information Systems
SN - 978-989-758-250-9
AU - Alfonso Hoyos J.
AU - Restrepo-Calle F.
PY - 2017
SP - 103
EP - 113
DO - 10.5220/0006333901030113