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A common practice to capture functional requirements of a software system is to utilize use-cases, which are textual descriptions of system usage scenarios written in a natural language. Since the substantial information about the system is captured by the use-cases, it comes as a natural idea to generate from these descriptions the implementation of the system (at least partially). However, the fact that the use-cases are in a natural language makes this task extremely difficult. In this paper, we describe a model-driven tool allowing code of a system to be generated from use-cases in plain English. The tool is based on the model-driven development paradigm, which makes it modular and extensible, so as to allow for use-cases in multiple language styles and generation for different component frameworks.
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Šimko, V., Hnětynka, P., Bureš, T. (2010). From Textual Use-Cases to Component-Based Applications. In: Lee, R., Ma, J., Bacon, L., Du, W., Petridis, M. (eds) Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing 2010. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 295. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13265-0_3
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